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...Amsterdam Less Sleaze, More Culture Citing its brothels and marijuana cafés as havens for crime, city officials in the Dutch capital have unveiled a $50 million plan to replace half of them with restaurants, galleries and hotels. Officials hope to broaden the city's appeal and make tourists feel less embarrassed about visiting...
APRIL 2, 2007 Tribune Co. accepts Zell's $8.2 billion purchase offer. Zell himself puts up only $315 million and borrows the rest against the employee pension plan...
...Harvard’s schools debate budget cuts, Allston residents face the possibility that funds previously reserved for the University’s expansion plans could be diverted to yet-to-be-determined projects. Since 2001, the strategic infrastructure fund—a 0.5 percent levy on the endowment of all of Harvard’s schools—has set aside money for financing projects in Allston. The fund contained $140.5 million as of 2007, according to Harvard Magazine. But in light of considering departmental budget cuts of 10 to 15 percent, faculty members—often critics...
According to UC representatives at the meeting, between 100 and 200 students will miss their scheduled exams to travel to Washington, D.C. If the registrar’s office does not oblige their requests, many of these students plan to take advantage of the unwritten exam make-up rule, which gives students a “free pass” to retake an exam they missed...
...This is truly a revolutionary plan: Teacher tenure has seldom been seriously challenged. However, we have reached a point where revolutionary change is needed. The critical lack of effective and enthusiastic teachers is both a crisis and a national disgrace. Making teaching salaries commensurate with other, more lucrative fields will hopefully go a long way toward fixing this. At present, as Ivy League graduates can earn six-figure salaries out of school in offices, not even long summer vacations can make a teacher’s meager paycheck seem enticing to the best candidates...