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...million Average annual income of the 400 wealthiest taxpayers in 2000, nearly four times what...
...what would seem a relatively minor move, Summers implemented a change to fundraising policy that will encourage the University’s wealthiest alums to donate to priorities determined by the president. But the alteration to the so-called “class credit” system—which determines whether a given gift counts toward the total donation pool of a reunion class—was one proposed and beaten down in previous administrations. Schools with wealthier alums objected to the idea of sharing them with other parts of the University...
...which they participate and demand that their graduate leadership allow women to be invited to join the clubs next fall. The administration ought to make their position on the clubs more clear, without resorting to the excuse that these private organizations cannot be pressured by the strength of the wealthiest university in the country. Princeton and Yale forced the private social organizations on their campuses to admit women—there is no excuse for Harvard not to take the same steps. Co-ed final clubs will not end the campus debate about social space and elite student groups...
...tons of opium in 2002, and that number is said to be growing rapidly. And who can blame them? The Bush administration didn’t even propose a humanitarian aid package for Afghanistan in 2002. While the administration found hundreds of billions of dollars for the wealthiest American taxpayers, they couldn’t seem to scrounge up anything for the poorest of the world’s poor...
...president has been perfectly willing to put trillions of dollars behind his calls for “tax relief” for the wealthiest Americans. He has been willing to break the bank to pay for foreign wars, because, he claims, these actions will make the American people safer. But while the President has been unconcerned about spending $100 billion to wage war in Iraq, he has continuously refused to provide funding for homeland security, even when the funding is clearly needed to protect the American people...