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Harvard's stance on discrimination in the U.S. military is about to affect its pocketbook. Under the provisions of the Solomon Amendment, this fiscal year Harvard Law School (HLS) stands to lose almost $1 million in federal grants due to its ban on military recruitment at its Office of Career Services (OCS). The ban, which exists because of the military's policy regarding homosexuals, is an important measure of protest that HLS should uphold. The loss of funding with which the law school is threatened is an act of aggressive financial coercion which inappropriately ties scholarship money to the school...
...pairing prestige with pocketbook costHarvard at most only $1.5 million this year, itseems there will be little incentive for Harvardto up the ante for the class of 2003.CrimsonJason...
...think Ellen took that tape with her," Faye says. "She had that one in her pocketbook...
...Cambridge resident reports that a 16-year-old 5-foot 10-inch male asked her for the time while she was walking near Garden Street. When she stated she did not know the time, the male grabbed her pocketbook which contained a box of Bank-Boston personal checks and shoved her to the ground...
...ballot-box revolution. In a time of unprecedented prosperity with 62.5 million men & women at work, the voters repudiated the party in power--repudiated an administration which held the awesome leverage of a $80 billion-a-year budget. The Democrats frankly fought the campaign on the pocketbook issue: "Don't let them take it away." The people did what materialists and cynics say people never do: voted against what they believed to be their immediate economic interests...