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...that economics is a passing fad, spurred by market-oriented policies in Washington and visions of well-paying jobs on Wall Street. The facts do not support this view. Economics has been one of the largest concentrations, if not the largest, for many decades, both at Harvard and at peer institutions. Notable Harvard economics graduates include Robert E. Rubin ’60, Ben S. Bernanke ’75, and Steve A. Ballmer ’77—each of whom graduated before hedge funds were invented...
Researchers have conducted several peer-reviewed studies into these questions since 2000. The conclusions? Caffeine won't keep you from getting drunk. In fact, drinking caffeine with alcohol could be more dangerous than drinking alcohol alone, from a psychological perspective. One of the fascinating things about how humans process alcohol is that we involve our brains as well as our bodies: we have at least some capacity to overcome alcohol's effects by sheer force of will. Mark Fillmore, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, has found that study volunteers who are warned that a certain alcoholic drink will...
McGinley, 30, grew up in New Jersey, spent his teen years going slightly wild in Manhattan and in his early 20s settled on the arty Lower East Side. The fashion magazines of the time had a singular image of his peer group, and it was not a good one: hollow-cheeked and sallow-skinned with the lank look of a hungry junkie. That wasn't McGinley's crowd--healthy, happily sexual, not above living in the extreme fast lane sometimes but otherwise...
...announcement of its generous new financial aid policy, under which families with incomes below $60,000 pay nothing and families making between $120,000 and $180,000 pay only ten percent, was promptly followed by expansions of financial aid at other schools, including a similar program at Yale. Other peer institutions also sweetened their aid packages by cutting loans and expanding funding...
...Harvard, and its wealthy peer institutions should use some of the money that they have rightfully generated to give back to the communities that host them. There is nothing wrong, and much to be lauded, about donating some of their sizable endowments for philanthropic purposes. Where this amendment falters is its attempted use of University funds to bolster faltering state programs. Gifts and contributions to Massachusetts should be University-driven and not muddled by the bureaucracy and mandate of the state...