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...monthly pension. On a good day, he can earn $8 from sales of his hardware, but that's not enough. Putin this year has promised to boost spending on social services, and the Kremlin has raised some state pensions. But in the market's food section, Gulfara Shakhulovna, 59, isn't impressed. She's worried about the health of her husband, a carpenter who retired but went back to work to make ends meet. Pensions may be going up, she says, "but that won't help because food and rent are also going...
...page-long section on the College also touched on an issue that sparked controversy at Tuesday’s meeting of the full Faculty, which saw three professors criticize the current system of student course evaluations administered by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). At the meeting, Philip J. Fisher, the Reid professor of English and American literature, said he “learned nothing” from the online evaluations he received last fall...
...Students, is four hundred and twenty five pages long. Of those pages, two are devoted to student-run businesses, one details the “care of furnishings and personal property,” and seven are reserved for information about Harvard’s libraries. Only one miniscule section is reserved for “honesty”—about the same amount of space allotted to the section on “Nonpayment of Telephone Bills.”This is more than a mere inequity in distribution of handbook space: It is indicative...
...freak—is her “only real instance” of “doing any contortion work at Harvard.” Some might disagree. In addition to her work in theater, Savitsky works two research jobs, contributes a column for The Harvard Crimson Arts section, is a peer counselor, does yoga, and says she even manages to go to class. Following graduation, Savitsky plans to go to law school and hopes to work in the “intersection of law and psychology,” although she knows she will continue to be involved...
...welfare program that paid three months’ rent for those with temporary financial hardship. The program allowed people to retain their housing during brief periods of economic hardship rather than entering a cycle of homelessness, she said. McDonagh called the federal government’s current Section 8 Voucher program, which subsidizes rent for low-income citizens, “barely recognizable anymore.” Michael A. Sullivan, a city councillor and former mayor of Cambridge who also participated in the panel, emphasized the importance of educating the public about homelessness to deflate the stereotype that the homeless...