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...midpoint a week ago, the giant Earth Summit in Rio seemed to be on the verge of completely disintegrating. Angered by Washington's refusal to sign the "biodiversity" treaty to protect the world's plants and animals, several poorer nations considered withdrawing their support for the pact and even spoke of reviewing their position on the agreement to combat global warming. At summit headquarters trivialities and private agendas derailed serious debate over the plan of action called Agenda 21. Arab delegates pushed for oblique references to emotional and irrelevant issues like the plight of Israel's occupied territories, while...
...answer, according to Forbes magazine, is that Harvard uses shifty accounting practices to make it look poorer than it actually is. That illusion of need will help bring in money from wealthy alumni, Forbes reported...
Harvard's smaller schools, which traditionally rely on smaller and less wealthy alumni bases, will be looking for help, Rudenstine hopes the new Universitywideplanning approach will yield opportunities forcollaboration between the poorer and richerschools...
Still, it won't be easy. While Harvard College admissions are need-blind, some of Harvard's poorer graduate schools are unable to maintain such an expensive policy. The University will make financial aid dollars a major priority in its upcoming capital campaign, administrators...
...what hasn't changed in 25 years. The class of'67 watched Watts burn the summer after its sophomore year, only to watch South Central burn just a month before its return to Cambridge this week. The Black underclass--like all people living in poverty in America--is now poorer, less educated and more likely to commit crime than 25 years...