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...definitions of "black." It is held to cover those excluded from power and privilege in the old order - African, Colored and Indian. But although they were also excluded, Chinese South Africans were passed over. The Chinese community fought back, and on June 18 this year, it won a ten-year legal battle to redress that slight. At a stroke, around 10,000 Chinese South Africans who had been South African citizens under apartheid officially became black, qualifying for the benefits...
...Massachusetts State Senate will vote this week on Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 ‘s $1 billion ten-year plan to bolster the life sciences in Massachusetts. The bill, which passed in the House on Feb. 28, is designed to aid the biotechnology industry, spur job development, and entice talented professors and researchers to the Bay State’s state universities. The bill would provide $500 million for lab construction and $250 million for research grants and post-doctoral education at the University of Massachusetts’ Worcester and Amherst campuses. The remaining...
...Committee (EAC) and other environmental groups around campus are working closely with the administration to set goals for the university. Many administrators shy away from a long-term commitment, especially one that falls outside their likely tenure at Harvard. They prefer more comfortable and less innovative interim goals and ten-year plans...
...planning to move into new offices and was in negotiations to sign a ten-year lease...
...Charitable Foundation chose to give Harvard funds from its $100 million Climate Change Initiative because of the University’s prolonged focus on the issue, according to Kelly S. Gallagher, director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group. “The fact that Harvard has a ten-year history of studying policy for energy innovation was the decisive factor in Harvard winning this grant,” she said. The grant was one of five that the Foundation announced last Thursday, totalling $6.6 million. Each grant–including those awarded to MIT, Carnegie Mellon, the nonprofit...