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Over a month after sending out a plea asking parents to donate money to fund its kosher dining hall, Harvard’s Jewish center will not be forced to cut back on its seven-meal per week schedule...
Faced with mounting financial troubles, Harvard Hillel recently sent a plea to many parents and grandparents asking for donations in an attempt to raise $75,000 by today for Hillel’s kosher dining hall. The letter, sent on June 6 by Judy Z. Herbstman ’07, the president of Hillel’s undergraduate steering committee, went out to all parents and grandparents in Hillel’s database, including both Jews and non-Jews. While adjustments will be necessary in order to cut costs if Hillel does not reach its goal of raising...
...anything was missing. According to Harvard College Library (HCL) Director of Communications Beth Brainard, Houghton Library discovered that 13 maps were missing from their collection. Of those 13 maps, Smiley has admitted to stealing eight, including a map of the new world by Hernan Cortes from 1524. With his plea deal, Smiley has agreed to serve a five-year prison sentence, according to the New York Times, though he faces up to 10 years imprisonment. He also faces fines of over $1,600,000, and has agreed to pay restitution to dealers and individuals affected by his thefts. The maps...
Faced with mounting financial troubles, Harvard Hillel recently sent a plea to many parents and grandparents asking for donations in an attempt to raise $75,000 by June 30 for Hillel’s kosher dining hall...
...plea bargain is reached, however, a lot of Alabamans may feel cheated. After their arrest, Cloyd, DeBusk and Moseley said they had set the first of five fires as a spontaneous joke, then followed it with four more fires intended as cover. Without a trial, all the details of their crimes - and how much planning went into them - may never be known...