Word: paule
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Whitty says he was disappointed that Harvard would not agree to a plan--forwarded by Adams House Co-Master Jana Kiely--to lease a tract of land from St. Paul Church and set aside a portion of the property for homeless families and start a center for socially-conscious students...
...itself. Citing the Harvard Corporation's supposed reluctance to fund a community-oriented project in the Square, President Derek C. Bok himself brushed off the unique plan to convert this property into some sort of mixed-income housing complex with local, state and federal funding. Ironically, the St. Paul's parking lot stands in the midst of a neighborhood in which Harvard has destroyed more than 70 homes in the last 40 years to make way for dormitories...
Calkins will be joined by Itzhak Perlman, an internationally acclaimed violinist; Paul H. Nitze '28, a chief U.S. arms negotiator; Lord Alexander Rupert Carrington, the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and Benno C. Schmidt Jr., the next president of Yale University...
...these positions, says Paul Bender, dean of the law school at Arizona State University in Tempe, "makes things better for affirmative action." But for which plans? The next tests will come shortly. The Justices have two more major cases on the subject to decide by July, one involving fire-department promotions in Cleveland, the other the imposition of a minority-membership goal on a New York City union. Last week's decision would seem to bode well for those and other affirmative-action schemes. But William Bradford Reynolds, the combative Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, insisted that he could...
...Senate committee's proposed increase in corporate income taxes is less harsh than in earlier plans. By comparison, the House tax-reform bill passed last December would increase business taxes by about $140 billion. Says Paul Huard, vice president of taxation and fiscal policy for the National Association of Manufacturers: "There will be a strong inclination to support the Senate committee's bill, and the rationale will be largely damage control. If you have to choose between a $100 billion tax increase and a $140 billion one, you take the $100 billion...