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Third-year law student Ronald M. Varnum, who is president of the BSA, said the committee was inconsistent with its conflict-of-interest policy. He said that committee member Virginia Wise, a senior lecturer on law for legal research, “has been involved directly with the existing [FYL] program...
Nickles: It was 1981 when I came in. There was euphoria. I remember Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Address was the same day the [Iran] hostages were released. The concurrence of those events was just really ecstatic. Plus we had a change in leadership in the Senate for the first time in decades. To be part of that was just a lot of fun. Frankly, my expectations were high, and it greatly exceeded my expectations. I came in as a businessperson and wanted to cut taxes. I wanted to expand freedom throughout the world, and we've had great success...
...Enter Ronald Ferguson, a Harvard Kennedy School of Government professor who canvassed junior high and high schoolers from Ann Arbor and 14 other integrated, middle- and upper-middle-class communities four years ago and developed a more nuanced explanation for the middle-class gap, as well as some specific prescriptions for bridging it. Looking at the affluent districts, Ferguson found that blacks and whites there weren't as homogeneous as they appeared at first glance. For starters, blacks were less affluent. Only 21% of blacks were upper middle class or higher, whereas 73% of whites were. Academically, there were...
...University has steadfastly defended its compensation policy since alumni first began to voice their objections. In a rare open letter to the Harvard community last June, then-Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel, citing an internal study, said Harvard would have spent more than twice as much on external hedge funds to achieve the same returns as the University’s internal management company...
Personal savings accounts emerged as a Social Security component in academia as far back as the 1950s, but the idea remained dormant until the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan ignited a Republican revolution and the recently formed libertarian think tank the Cato Institute latched onto personal accounts as a free-market fix. Retirement savings, in the free marketeers' view, should be seen as dynamic investments rather than welfare-state safety nets. Indeed, the Cato economists and others concluded that Social Security just wasn't a good investment, based on what taxpayers put in and what they ultimately get out. The President...