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...Harvard-Allston Partnership Fund has been a high note in an often tenuous inter-community relationship. The program provides small grants to local non-profit organizations to support community development projects in the Allston area. The first grants were distributed in June, and the project will begin accepting its second set of proposals this month. The plan is in line with Harvard’s commitment to support the Allston community, and we are encouraged by its progress...
Four Harvard Law School professors signed a statement in support of the defendant in a case regarding executive pay that will be heard by the Supreme Court next week. In the case, Jones et al. v. Harris Associates, several mutual fund investors charged that the fund had overpaid its advisors. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago dismissed a full court rehearing of the lawsuit in May 2008. Law professors John C. Coates, Robert C. Clark, Allen Ferrell, and J. Mark Ramseyer signed an amicus brief earlier this month in support of the defendant, Harris Associates, along with more...
...withdraw official recognition of the program in the 1960s. Beginning in 1969, Harvard students who wanted to enroll in ROTC had to trek to Kendall Square to train and to take ROTC courses at MIT. Harvard does not give degree credit for these courses, nor does it provide financial support for ROTC programs. The College’s current Student Handbook outlines Harvard’s official stance on the issue, as well as its reasons for not recognizing the program. “Current federal policy of excluding known lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals from admission to ROTC...
...quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services. The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight...
...ably satisfying the wishes of the auto industry - by encouraging southeastern Michigan's reliance on this single, lumbering mastodon - Dingell has in fact played a signal role in destroying Detroit. He was hardly alone; if you wanted to get elected in southeastern Michigan, you had to support the party line dictated by the Big Four - GM, Ford, Chrysler and their co-conspirator the United Auto Workers. Anything that might limit the industry's income was bad for the auto industry, and anything bad for the auto industry was deemed dangerous to Detroit...