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Junior seminars in economics have become the latest victim of the university-wide financial crisis. These 16-person seminars were some of the only small undergraduate courses taught by the department’s faculty. Now that they are gone, face-to-face interaction with a professor is a reality for only a handful of students in the College’s largest concentration. We strongly object to the elimination of this program and implore the department to make every effort to find a viable alternative to make up for the loss of these seminars...
...Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda.” “She was fearless, courageous, the consummate professional,” said Des Forges’ colleague Georgette Gagnon, director of Human Rights Watch’s Africa division. “She was the kind of person who would in any situation have the smartest and wisest decision on the course of action to be taken.” In her time at Human Rights Watch, Des Forges spent four years interviewing the victims of the Rwanda genocide and provided expert witness testimony before the International Criminal Tribunal...
...CPD’s third quarter crime analysis report, 112 robberies occurred in Cambridge between Jan. 1, 2008 and Sept. 30, 2008, the latest dates for which information is currently available, 89 of which were street robberies. During this time, there were 53 cases of larceny from a person in Harvard Square. There were 161 robberies in Cambridge in 2007, according to the police department’s annual report. Of these cases, 120 were street robberies. “As for Harvard, our robbery numbers stayed the same from 2007 to 2008,” wrote Catalano...
...Consider a thought experiment proposed by Greg Mankiw. The government could send each person in the country a check with which he could pay his neighbor to dig holes in his backyard. Unemployment would fall, but so would welfare. Consumers could buy more useful goods if government allowed them to keep their money. Unfortunately, Japan casts such a long shadow that Obama and his advisers think the economy will tank by the time consumers spend or businesses reinvest...
...problem is that it is not easy to count every person in the United States, and some communities are disproportionately left out of the total. The 1990 census missed an estimated 8 million people - mostly immigrants and urban minorities - and it managed to double-count 4 million white Americans. Recent or illegal immigrants are often reluctant to answer questions in a government survey, and many experts fear that concerns about government misuse of personal data post-9/11 could hamper participation in the 2010 census as well. Children have also traditionally been underincluded in census totals...