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...compromise is not flawless. The distinction between the current payment plan and the new plan is a fine one, and to many will ring false. The University, after all, will retain significant control over the nominally independent ROTC fund. Thus, a good idea, we think, would be to go even further: Harvard could, for example, hand over control of ROTC funds to somebody not directly affiliated with the University--perhaps a Harvard graduate with experience in financial management. This would ensure a clean break between Harvard and ROTC funding, since the checks wouldn't even bear the University's name...
Italian magistrates told Silvio Berlusconi he is under investigation for corruption charges, even as the Prime Minister was host to an international conference in Naples on organized crime. Berlusconi allegedly authorized the payment of bribes to tax officials by officers of Fininvest, a $7 billion media-and-retail conglomerate he formerly headed and still owns. The Prime Minister denied the charges and said he would continue his six-month-old administration, but he also offered to sell part of Fininvest, something he had previously refused...
...University does not need to imply endorsement of ROTC," Gerace says. "It explicitly gives its support through the payment...
...Having outside funds support the payment to MIT is not specifically what we recommended, Verba said. "But it is consistent with the University stopping using its own funds to pay for the program...
...University does not need to imply endorsement of ROTC," he said. "It explicitly gives its support through the payment...