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Running a patient, ball control offense and a tightly knit zone defense, Army embarrassed a visiting Harvard squad, 73-49, before 1000 at the Army Field House in West Point, N.Y. What the Cadets did was totally thrash a Crimson squad that played its poorest ball of the still-young season...
WHILE THE ED SCHOOL SEEMS to have espoused the theory that practice makes perfect for its students, financial limitations restrict the kinds of students it can attract. As one of Harvard's poorest schools, with only an $8 million endowment, the Ed School is having serious problems providing enough financial aid for all its students, especially minorities and international students. The school's endowment is this low because Ed School alumni can't afford to give as much as graduates of the Med or Law schools--forcing the school to rely on tuition money to pay its expenses. Although last...
Boston has chronic illnesses that a brief burst of high spirits will not cure. Of the 30 largest U.S. cities, according to the Census Bureau, Boston is among the poorest, ranking 26th in median household income. The housing stock has deteriorated badly, and rent control, whatever its virtues, does not encourage renovation. Next year's municipal budget deficit is estimated at $40 million. Yet there are King and Flynn: with both men and their constituencies earnestly committed to solving those problems, happier days may be here again...
This year's push for austerity, though, goes against the grain of most modern development strategies. Essentially, the IMF is telling the world's poorest countries to tighten their belts by cutting government deficits, raising exports, and keeping up payments on a morass of debts to Western banks. These conservative edicts seem to be inspired more by frustration with past approaches--which resulted in negligible growth and huge debts for most of the Third World--than by any renaissance in development economics. Even President Reagan has discovered that economic growth rarely takes place without extensive deficit spending by the government...
Haiti for example, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, is under the iron heel of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier Despite the accounts of torture from refugees, religious groups. Amnesty International and others, the U.S. has stepped up arms sales to Duvalier. Thousands have fled Duvalier's reign of terror, hoping to return to a free country some day. Duvalier, with American guns and dollars, has shown he will commit the most brazen crimes to prevent that day from coming...