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Smith said it would have been difficult to plan the cuts earlier, since the Harvard Corporation—the University’s chief governing body—did not announce the eight-percent reduction in the payout rate until March...
When asked to cite areas where student life would improve as a result of the cuts, Smith had one answer: improved brain breaks—which will see 40 percent more funding next year...
...light of the dramatically altered financial landscape, FAS has scaled back its capital ambitions to match the new economic reality. Relative to the capital aspirations from one year ago, FAS has reduced the capital plan for the next two years by more than 50 percent. Only projects that are cash-funded or critical to the maintenance of the FAS’s primary mission – such as essential life-safety upgrades and expenditures associated with faculty recruitment – will be funded in the near term. That said, FAS will continue to reinvest in its nearly...
...update on swine flu. This is the second HSPH survey on Americans’ response to the outbreak. The first was released on May 1—just days after the first confirmed death from swine flu in the United States. The most recent survey found that about 60 percent of Americans are no longer concerned that the H1N1 flu will reach them or their immediate family in the next year, a 53 percent increase from last week’s poll. “There’s still uncertainty of what direction the swine flu could take...
...number that included, the Wall Street Journal later reported, “several single mothers, a dead person and a 13-year-old girl.” But the movement was not conceived in a vacuum, coming amidst a hail of lost profits—14 percent in the space of four years—that the industry said coincided with an uptick in the purchase of blank CDs and the use of peer-to-peer sharing networks...