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...report released last Wednesday by the University-wide Task Force on the Arts highlighted the fact that the arts should be a fundamental element of Harvard’s educational aim. Established in the fall of last year, the Task Force on the Arts emphasized a greater engagement with the practice of art as well as the scholarly appreciation of it. While its ambitions may be economically constrained by university budget cuts and losses, we praise the report's affirmation of the arts, and hope that some short-term proposals are achieved without great delay. Harvard’s endowment...
...Blagojevich, observers almost immediately evoked the Windy City's rich, colorful history of corruption. But after a couple of days Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the son of the man synonomous with cronyism and backroom Chicago politics, wasn't about to let the comparisons go unchallenged. At a Wednesday press conference, a subdued Daley, who is bidding to land the 2016 Summer Olympics, went out of his way to distance himself and his city from the stain of the burgeoning scandal. "We don't have the [bad] reputation. We have a good city here. This is all about Springfield. This...
Despite his gains, a growing number of investors began asking Madoff for their money back. In the first week of December, according to the SEC suit, Madoff told a senior executive that there had been requests from clients for $7 billion in redemptions. On Wednesday, Madoff met with his two sons to tell them the advisory business was a fraud - "a giant Ponzi scheme," he reportedly told them - and was nearly bankrupt. The sons reportedly contacted their lawyer, who then alerted federal authorities to the fraud. Before being caught, Madoff was working on a scheme to dole out his funds...
...about Colonial backlash against his team tomorrow. “They’re coming off their worst performance and we’re their next game, so we’re going to get their completely best shot,” he said. Getting over the draining loss Wednesday to get up for tomorrow’s game is a tough task, but one factor working in Harvard’s favor is the depth of the team. The Crimson has shown so far that it can play as many as ten different players throughout the game, with little...
Much of that optimism has to do with the efforts of the well-educated, mild-mannered bureaucrats running the caretaker government for the past 23 months. On Wednesday, the government announced that the state of emergency will be finally lifted on Dec. 17 so that parties can campaign and assemble freely. During its tenure, the government has taken to task the country's crony-state politics, strengthened regulatory bodies like the election and anti-corruption commissions, and documented and photographed the more than 80 million people eligible to vote in elections - a stunning feat in this vastly impoverished nation...