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...limited the serving of hot breakfasts to four of the College’s 12 Houses in an attempt to cut board costs. The move sparked student protest and, though a revelation in the spring of 1978 of a Food Services budget surplus rendered the point moot, the hot breakfast controversy exposed undergraduate concerns over how well their student representatives acted in protecting their interests and how receptive administrators were to their opinions...
...remained concerned from a development point of view as to what the intentions and implications are,” Galvin added. “Harvard has said they have very long term plans but I find that hard to believe. This is not just surplus land the university is adding to its inventory for the long-distant future...
Most threatening for Harvard’s undergraduates, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has seen the possibility of serious deficits in its immediate future. Though FAS ran a surplus this year, it was a dramatically smaller amount than predictions led the University to expect. And in February, Dean of FAS William C. Kirby announced that the budget would have...
...customs authorities seized twice as much porn and other contraband in 2002 as they did in 2001. Toxic foreign influences typically enter the country via its porous border with China, across which Chinese and North Korean traders smuggle videotapes and music cassettes. While food remains in desperately short supply, surplus porn has sent prices tumbling. In 1995, according to a Chinese broker who works the border, a skin flick sold for $100. "Now you don't earn money selling porn because it's so common. When you sell South Korean dramas, you give out a few porn videos for free...
...York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi charged that MTA officials kept double books in order to justify the hike—raising commuter rail rates by around 25 percent, MTA bridge tolls by 50 cents and bus and subway fares by 33 percent. Hevesi said that $512 million in surplus was moved by MTA into the revenue column of later years. Another audit of NYC Transit found $850 million was mislabeled as operating expenses. These numbers are relatively large compared to MTA’s now quite dubious claim that it is looking at a $1 billion deficit over two years...