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...public image by matching donations to disaster relief materially disadvantages these efforts—efforts which, ultimately, have more value than relief itself. It is true that $25.9 billion could rescue much of Niger from famine. It could buy crates of second line antibiotics to combat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis worldwide. Harvard’s endowment could even de-mine the Korean border eight times over. In doing so, however, Harvard would forfeit the money necessary to cultivate the University’s unique contributions to education and research. The University would merely be accomplishing something that every charity...
...story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice ... [The film's] gem?tlich heart tugs make a Lehar operetta seem grimly realistic by comparison. Viewers who want a movie to swell around them in big, warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding her perky triumph as Mary Poppins, Julie turns every number into a bell ringer and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer...
...really sorry for the person who was mugged, but there hasn’t been an astronomical increase in crime...I’m not worried yet.” Wilson said that the victim of Thursday’s incident was correct to not try to resist the robbery. “I think the person reacted appropriately,” he said. “An iPod costs what, $250 or $300? I’d pay that for my life.” —Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...rock. Among the group's admirers are these four young jazz luminaries, who join forces to cover eight Pavement songs. It's an unlikely enterprise, and not every arrangement works--the catchy hit Cut Your Hair is reinterpreted as a schmaltzy R&B ballad--but it's hard to resist music this fun. On songs like Here and Summer Babe, the rhythm section lays down pulsating grooves as saxman Carter uncovers the bluesy tunefulness buried beneath Pavement's trademark static. The result is one of the oddest--and, oddly, most delightful--tribute albums of the year...
...makes the salaries of HMC’s top brass public. If Harvard managed externally, these prices would be out of sight and out of mind for alumni but not the University’s financial administration. Alumni who lack the information possessed by those making the decisions should resist the temptation to get angry at headlines that blare that “top fund managers net $100 million in fiscal year 2003 payouts” and instead take into account the hidden costs that endowment managers have to consider...