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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...point person,” the man tasked with setting fiscal policies to close a gaping deficit. Sweet—who often flanks Smith in various meetings with FAS administrative deans—knows the numbers well enough to tell units how particular proposals for budget cuts will save, or perhaps even cost money...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Behind Closed Doors | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...really know what the priories of the leadership are—where they consider some things untouchable and other things less valuable,” Lewis says. “Its very hard for anybody who’s not on the inside to imagine where you can save large amounts of money without knowing how much things cost...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Behind Closed Doors | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...This finding has many potential psychological explanations. For example, it could be that individuals are mainly concerned with their relative wealth in comparison to others. If incomes grow consistently across the socioeconomic distribution, then we would not expect to see happiness grow much at all, save for those in the lowest earning bracket. Reinforcing the effect, as individuals gain wealth they often change social groups—and begin interacting with other higher earning individuals. Thus, as we gain wealth, the people we choose to compare ourselves against may also become wealthier, leading to little change in relative position...

Author: By James M. Wilsterman | Title: Happiness and Our Ethical Values | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...administration went beyond the report’s initial recommendations. Noting that about a third of undergraduates eat breakfast and the University would save $900,000 as a result of the cut, the administration decided to keep only Annenberg open for hot breakfast during weekdays next year...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: House Life Faces Uncertainty | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Sciences and renewing the energy of Harvard Houses are critical and exciting tasks. We willingly undertake them. Working groups are at work—in Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, and on the Houses, on Student Life, on Undergraduate Education. Our salaries are frozen. But will all this really save the $200 million a year necessary to meet the structural deficit inherited by our talented and visionary President? Can they really do anything by next November or by the beginning of the next fiscal year? Does the Harvard Corporation actually see what it is asking of the president, the faculty...

Author: By Diana L. Eck | Title: The Bucket Brigade | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

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