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...claiming your hometown as New York City—and particularly Manhattan—causes some classmates to be wary: A large proportion of the Harvard students from New York act as though it is the center of the world. Many come from private schools, grew up in the wealthiest circles and associate mostly with those of the same socioeconomic or social class in college. Many of them arrive in the Yard already knowing a bevy of new undergraduates from school, summers in the Hamptons and ubiquitous New York social connections. To students from other parts of the country, this...
...while the new funds are a boon to research at the world’s wealthiest university, new opportunities have proved a double-edged sword...
There are some things that even the wealthiest of the wealthy can’t get away with. Martha Stewart and the boys at Enron learned that the hard way. So this spring, Harvard decided to take it down a few notches in our own back-Yard with compensation caps for the board of the Harvard Management Company (HMC) and increased aid for low-income students. But it has not done enough...
...question is whether the nation's wealthiest minority can have the same impact on show business as it has in business, medicine and technology. And whether 290 million other Americans will want to see them onscreen, dance to their music, go to their shows. About 500 years ago, Columbus sought India and found America. Now it's time for America's cultural consumers to discover India. --Reported by Simon Crittle, Lina Lofaro and Jyoti Thottam/New York, Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles and David Thigpen/Chicago
...tuition or financial assistance to over 500,000 college students in return for national service such as tutoring young and/or underprivileged children, environmental cleanup and homeland defense. Kerry will also work with our allies to bring peace to Iraq, and repeal Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest so we can afford universal health care and real homeland security...