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...thinking of the union leadership has shifted considerably over the past five months—from optimism that members could weather the fiscal storm without suffering too many ill effects, to sober recognition that sacrifices will have to be made to bring the University back into the black. “We were more hopeful originally that any changes in the staffing pattern or reductions would be incremental or spotty,” Jaeger says. “But it’s become clear in the past few months, it’s worse than that...
...total. The Graduate School of Education will confer 597 degrees. The School of Dental Medicine will confer 65 degrees in total. The Divinity School will award 188 degrees. The School of Design will award 209 degrees. The Extension School will confer a total of 605 degrees. The National Weather Service predicts mostly cloudy skies with a high of 68 for this morning’s ceremonies. —Staff writer Cara K. Fahey can be reached at cfahey@fas.harvard.edu...
...only struggled to make ends meet in an unprecedented fiscal crisis, but it has also reined in its visionary—and what some have criticized as financially irresponsible—plans to construct a new campus across the Charles. In November, Faust wrote that Harvard would weather the market turmoil by “staying true to our academic values and our long-term ambitions.” But just three months later, she cited the University’s “collective obligation to face the situation with the right balance of short-term focus and long...
...been a period of painful transition and much-needed change. With all of the numerous challenges that the Obama administration and the United States as a whole will face in the coming months, we hope that our nation, our institution, and the members of our graduating class can weather the storm and make their own mark on the world. We are pleased with the new administration’s foreign policy thus far, and hope that it continues to demonstrate a strong record of measured and rational decision-making...
...highly local. Most food production is consumed on the farm, and the portion marketed does not travel far. This is because of high transport costs linked to a poor road system. Roughly 70 percent of all rural Africans live more than a 30-minute walk from the nearest all-weather road, so when seasonal rains are good, surplus production cannot be moved easily for sale in another district at a higher price. Even worse for these true Locavores, when the crops fail in a drought, food supplies from nearby surplus regions cannot be brought...