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...began my ill-fated and ultimately uncompleted effort at a commencement address. It’s not much of a speech, really, and the last portion is a rather clumsy effort at segueing into a pearl of wisdom that, in all likelihood, would never have emerged. As I was beginning to write, I wanted to stand before the assembled Commencement crowd and, more than anything, casually note just how wonderful my roommate...
...never saw, the men, and the weather. As an executive of The Harvard Crimson, I listened to—and sympathized with—the complaints of many other members of the Harvard community. So focused was I on what was wrong with Harvard that, for a good portion of my undergraduate career, I never really took notice of what was right with it. But that all changed one day, when I began to realize just how amazing some of my experiences here have been. I remembered working on a research paper for my history class and realizing that...
...current Review’s President Aileen M. McGrath wrote in an e-mail. “There is not an affirmative action policy for gender.”The call for extending affirmative action to women was most recently renewed in 2003. That year, the portion of women editors fell to 25 percent—the lowest level in a decade. But the argument for gender-based affirmative action gained little traction. Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried said at the time that “this seems to be a manufactured issue,” citing the fact...
...budget during his tenure as president.In the fall of 1955, the Ford Foundation donated over $4 million, mostly to accommodate rising faculty salaries.Harvard received more than $3.75 million during the first quarter of fiscal year 1955-56 and had received half a million dollars more during the same portion of the previous year. Fundraising success continued the following year, with the University taking in over $3 million in the first quarter of 1956. More than $300,000 of that money was earmarked for financial aid.In the second quarter of fiscal year 1956, the University received more than $5.5 million...
...change in their lives in terms of either jobs or basic services," said aid worker Holly Ritchie, who works for a British charity in Kabul. Much of their anger is directed squarely at the very people ostensibly in the country to help, the foreign aid agencies who oversee a portion of the billions of dollars in aid money that has flowed into the country in the last four years...