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...convenience of credit card use—especially online—provides a constant temptation for college-age students. Contrary to the findings of the study, Harvard students and affiliates have remained relatively unaffected by the trend of increasing debt. Gene Foley, president of the Harvard University Employees Credit Union, said, “On the Harvard campus, we have not really seen students [who] look like they’re getting out of control or getting into trouble with their credit cards.” Foley added that there has not been a spike in the demand for credit...
...learning,” the letter read. In recent weeks, SLAM, whose Web site sports the slogan “GREED is the new Crimson,” has left pamphlets in Annenberg Hall while chanting “No layoffs!” SLAM members have also joined union members in protesting layoffs of nine subcontracted custodians at Harvard Medical School. “What we really want to encourage was the kind of dialogue that other institutions like MIT have, where students have input into where budget cuts can be made,” said Alyssa M. Aguilera...
...private companies - including several local subsidiaries of U.S. corporations - and taxed American products so heavily that U.S. exports were halved in just two years. The Eisenhower Administration responded by imposing trade restrictions on everything except food and medical supplies. Decrying "Yankee imperialism," Castro expanded trade with the Soviet Union instead. The U.S. responded by cutting all diplomatic ties, and the two countries have been talking through Switzerland ever since. President Kennedy issued the permanent embargo on Feb. 7, 1962 - right after ordering a shipment of 1,200 Cuban cigars for himself - and within a few years the country, whose economy...
...darkest moment in the countries' relationship came on the morning of October 15, 1962 when U.S. spy planes discovered evidence that the Soviet Union was building missile bases in Cuba. President Kennedy learned of the threat the following morning, while still in pajamas, and for the next 12 days the U.S. and Russia were locked in a white-knuckled nuclear face-off - the Cuban Missile Crisis - that ended only when Nikita Khrushchev accepted Kennedy's secret proposal to remove U.S. missiles in Turkey in exchange for the de-arming of Cuba. The Soviet missiles were gone within six months...
...Wouldn't this arouse opposition from teachers or their unions? No, at least not from the teachers' groups that support serious reform. The American Federation of Teachers says clear standards would help ensure that teachers are effectively trained, objectively judged and provided with proven teaching tools and curriculums. "Common, coherent, grade-by-grade standards promote effective professional development," the union wrote in a 2008 report that criticized weak state standards. "A shared understanding of what students should know and be able to do enables the best kind of professional development: collegial efforts to share best practices." Randi Weingarten, the president...