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...David T. Ellwood ’75, the dean of the Kennedy School of Government, said Harvard needs a University-wide initiative “to ensure that people’s choices about what they do are affected by their highest and best aspirations, and not the size of their debt...
...vote left conservatives with a shrunken parliamentary majority that may leave the new government vulnerable to interests that oppose programs seen as essential to keeping pace with European Union partners. "Of course we would have wanted a bigger, more comfortable majority," said Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a conservative lawmaker. "But the size of the majority will not affect how effective our government will be." New Democracy held 165 of the 300 seats in the outgoing parliament. Karamanlis, who describes himself a "compassionate conservative," called for an early trip to the ballot box ahead of the August wildfires, seeking a fresh mandate...
...looked to build over last weekend’s flawless performance and continue its unbeaten streak. Unfortunately, Harvard was met with equally game opponents playing under foreign pool conditions. “The pool we played in [for the St. Francis match] wasn’t the same size as a normal pool,” co-captain Chris Ludwick said. “We just didn’t adapt as well as we should have, and we weren’t quite as quick as we needed to be.” After falling, 15-7, against Saint...
...engineers says should theoretically work as well in a skyscraper as in Lowell House. The only thing Castine required from the College to make his plan a reality was space in the House basements to store an estimated 50 to 60 cable boxes, each of which is roughly the size of a DVD player. Castine even volunteered to run the operation himself and to supply the estimated $300,000 needed to finance the project through loans, so that it would cost the university virtually nothing...
...state, the Republican candidate blasted it Monday as "bad medicine." As a presidential contender, he has distanced himself from the Massachusetts program, which is proving costlier and more difficult to implement than advertised. He also says that what works for an individual state may not work nationally. "A one-size-fits-all national health care system is bound to fail," Romney said in introducing his plan last month...