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With the shift in investment strategy at HMC over the past decade, this segment of the endowment has dwindled to less than 30 percent...
...voices being heard today at Harvard do not properly represent the many individual opinions and ideas in the University community. One segment of voices cries out unheard. AALARM's purpose is to amplify these voices. We will be heard...
...writer for the conservative Salient argued: "Only at Harvard could the current debate over the on-campus status of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) ever take place. For the attitudes of a large segment of the Harvard community are so far out of touch with the beliefs and values of the rest of the American people that it is easy to get a warped perspective on the issue...
While debates over college curriculum get the most attention, professors generally can resist or subvert the most wrongheaded changes and students generally have mature enough judgment to sort out the arguments. Elementary- and secondary-school curriculums reach a far broader segment at a far more / impressionable age, and political expediency more often wins over intellectual honesty. Exchanges have been vituperative in New York, where a state task force concluded that "African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans have all been victims of an intellectual and educational oppression . . . Negative characterizations, or the absence of positive references, have...
Fashion businesses like Klein's make a sizable contribution to the U.S. economy. Total apparel and accessories sales last year accounted for $91.2 billion, making fashion one of the nation's major industries. American firms exported $2.6 billion worth of apparel, making up an important segment of the balance of trade. Many corporations and banks in both the U.S. and Japan are investing in fashion houses, providing needed operating cash and funding ambitious new projects. They are, says Barry Landau, a public relations executive and friend of Halston's, "buying motion picture companies or fashion houses. These are the glamour...