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...large, looming expenditures—massive expansion across the Charles River and the high cost of the once-in-a-generation Harvard College Curricular Review now underway. The former will require a brand-new campus in Allston, the latter a much expanded Faculty. So consistently large payouts now are tougher than the size of the endowment might suggest...
...from 7,242 to 5,731. The main reason: a big drop in speeding. Since the first quarter of 2002, the number of motorists exceeding the limit by at least 10 km/h has fallen by 15%. What convinced a nation known for intemperate driving to slow down? Tougher policing, stiffer fines and a hard-hitting publicity campaign. More than 100 speed radars have been installed around the country since last fall (1,000 are to be in place by the end of 2005). The government also funded a series of chilling anti-speeding commercials aired last year - including radio spots...
Fortunately for the Crimson, it can’t get much tougher...
KERRY He proposes tougher regulations against abusive mortgage lending practices and credit-card policies. He promises to cut the deficit in half within four years through spending cuts...
...Franklin, a former Air Force Reserve officer, served briefly in the U.S. military attache's office in Israel in the late 1990s. Since the summer of 2001, he has worked as an Iran expert for Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's third ranking official, a neoconservative long in favor of tougher measures against Iran. In 2001 Franklin and a Pentagon colleague were dispatched to Rome for a meeting with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who had been a key figure in the 1980s' Iran-contra scandal. They were seeking intelligence on Iran from him. But the CIA has long considered...