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This year, Harvard Law School has seen a 20 percent reduction in the number of firms participating in its recruitment process, according to Mark A. Weber, assistant dean for career services at the Law School. Some members of the class of 2009 received deferred start-dates as firms struggled to keep the hiring commitments they made two years earlier. And starting salaries for the largest firms have dropped from around...
Economics Professor N. Gregory Mankiw, whose introductory course Social Analysis 10 attracts hundreds of students each year, saw his enrollment decrease by nearly 10 percent from last year...
Facing a projected budgetary deficit of $220 million last year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had planned this spring to cut 8 to 10 percent of the College’s section leaders for the fall semester, which was projected to save around $2 million, according Logan S. McCarty, assistant dean of Harvard College. But because of changes in enrollment, it remains unclear four weeks into the semester how much money will actually be saved or how section sizes will change...
...problems surrounding low voter turnout and introduced compulsory voting in 1925. All men and women of voting age are legally required to register at a polling station on the day of elections and have their opinion counted. The result is a turnout that is consistently greater than 90 percent...
Firstly, a high voter turnout is the only way of ensuring that our democratically elected representatives truly represent the majority. There’s no doubt that President Obama’s victory was resounding. Fifty two percent of all voters supported him. However, it transpires that, even in that most exceptional presidential election of 2008, only 64 percent of eligible voters actually turned out to vote. The outcome was that only around one in three Americans actually voted for President Obama. This is not a new phenomenon; low voter turnout may be regarded as the norm rather than...