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Past class agents have stirred some controversy by offering perks to large donors. In 1999, the Leadership Gift Committee, a subgroup of the Senior Gift Committee, offered donors who gave over $250 an invitation to a New York cocktail party, which was widely regarded as an entrance into the well-connected Harvard network...
Kirchhoff chairs the Working Group on Science Technology, a group of students dedicated to increasing the dialogue between scientists and policymakers. The group is a subgroup of the IOP's Projects Committee...
...from an unexpected quarter: the business community. While commercial interests joined forces to block the Kyoto treaty in the Senate two years ago, the opposition has since splintered. Even such big oil companies as BP Amoco concede that global warming demands a serious response. Just two weeks ago, a subgroup of FORTUNE 500 companies known as the Business Roundtable called on government to encourage the development of advanced technologies to "address concerns about climate change." And when he visited Washington recently, Ford Motor chairman Bill Ford said, "We believe that for the public--which includes our customers and shareholders--environmental...
...white coffins are in the ground and the cameras gone, the outrage will subside. But maybe not this time. In town meetings and talk radio, the public has had its fill of politicians talking resignedly about our gun culture, as if there's nothing to be done about a subgroup that finds schoolyard massacres an acceptable cost for its right to be armed to the teeth. But if the Constitution speaks of a "well-regulated militia," why don't we regulate it? Surely the sanest teenager isn't militia material. Gun ownership should not start until...
...without having to worry about being out of date in six months. The average PC sold for $1,600 in 1997; it now sells for about $950. The fastest-growing segment of the industry is the sub-$600 market, where you'll find companies like eMachines and Microworkz. The subgroup currently accounts for 20% of PCs sold at retail, according to the market-research firm PC Data. Ultracheap prices have earned eMachines, in business for just six months, fourth place in retail desktop market share, less than a point behind...