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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...awkward arsenal, perhaps, but Travia’s no militant prohibitionist. After his experience at Dartmouth, he has no illusions about undergraduate alcohol consumption, and he doesn’t expect to steer students down a road of abstinence. Information would be his weapon of choice, and in the months since his installment, he has been aggressively spreading his neon-colored freebies around campus like a marketing maven...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Can Good PR Work Curb Binge Drinking? | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...swelled to $25.9 billion during Jack R. Meyer’s last fiscal year in charge of the endowment. But as Meyer took off on Friday, Harvard still had no permanent replacement for him and said a member of Harvard Management Company’s board of directors would steer the firm...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Endowment Reaches $25.9 Billion | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

Though economists typically steer their research away from the spiritual realm, a new study released in August found a connection between active membership in a religious congregation and levels of consumption and happiness...

Author: By Sarah E.F. Milov, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Religion Abates Income Shock | 9/22/2005 | See Source »

...agency's response has had its flaws. At the height of the New Orleans flooding, the Red Cross followed government orders to steer clear of the Superdome and New Orleans Convention Center, leaving starving people stranded. A few posers have slipped through the cracks: a Georgia woman is in county jail for scamming the charity out of $1,300 in relief funds. In Mississippi, victims have complained about a lack of Red Cross presence. In Houston, it ran out of debit cards that could be used for cash or supplies and had to write checks by hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurricane Katrina: The Red Cross: Trying to Get It Right This Time | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

...patience to browse through mountainous displays in the artisan shops located along Jalan Raya Ubud and Monkey Forest Road (store aisles will be almost impassable with paintings and carvings?take a deep breath and watch your step). One more word of advice: guides and drivers will often try to steer you to a shop or gallery run by a friend or family member, few of which will rival these three favorite galleries of our own suggestions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art Mart | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

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