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...record low of 29 percent of registered voters participated in the 2005 election. The last time voter participation topped 50 percent...
...groups, and so-called “leadership” organizations. This is evident, too, in the rise in number of concentrators in areas such as economics, which serves for many as a pre-business track. A Crimson survey of the Class of 2007 found that more than 60 percent of those entering the workforce were pursuing jobs in finance...
...programs, and their parents drop thousands of dollars on private SAT tutors and college consultants. Ivywise, a New York-based college consulting firm, charges anywhere from $1,000 for a one-time consultation to $30,000 for a two-year 100-hour program. The company promises pleasing results: 75 percent of its clients go on to attend Ivy League colleges. Ivywise provides a slew of standard services like scheduling students’ testing dates and summer programs and editing admissions essays. But some of the firm’s offerings are a bit unsettling: One Ivywise package promises...
...work with Harvard in negotiating an agreement that allowed the University to construct student housing in the Riverside neighborhood while helping the city address its shortage of affordable housing. Under the deal, Harvard won permission to develop the area near Memorial Drive in exchange for donating 20 percent of the floor area—38 housing units—as moderate income housing. The University also agreed to build a small new park on the drive...
...pocket. A Congressional hearing this past June revealed a pattern of conduct by the league that denies retirees the money to which their injuries entitle them. The game rakes in $7 billion per year and causes more bodily harm than any other. And yet fewer than 3 percent of applicable veterans—men plagued by brain trauma, dementia, and paralysis—succeed in obtaining disability benefits. But surely the retirees can pay medical expenses with the money they made as players right? Unfortunately, no. The violent nature of football often renders athletes incapable of providing for their families...