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When I was young, my family would spend the summer in Long Beach Island (LBI), a half-mile-wide tourist haven in Ocean County, New Jersey. My memories of LBI are of miniature golf, of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream cones, and of long walks along the sand with my parents. Consider this along with—though my Irish name does its best to obfuscate it—my Sicilian heritage, and I’m perhaps as entitled as anyone to be offended by MTV’s “Jersey Shore...
...site will serve as a portal through which students can donate to various Haiti relief efforts on behalf of their House or freshman dormitory yards—a tactic that taps into the stronger connection students often feel for a House initiative versus a Harvard-wide project, according to UC Vice President Eric N. Hysen...
...Though Elmendorf, 47, hasn't always told lawmakers what they wanted to hear in his year on the job, he has won wide praise for his independence. A native of upstate New York, he taught at Harvard before joining the CBO as an analyst in 1993. Since then, he has done stints at the Federal Reserve, the Council of Economic Advisers and the Treasury Department. "I have enormous respect for him," says Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad. "He plays it straight, and he's enormously serious about getting it right...
...first to concede that even the most sophisticated CBO microsimulation model is not the same thing as a crystal ball. "We tell people all the time that our results are very uncertain," he says. "Every number that we give needs to be viewed as the middle of a fairly wide distribution of possible actual outcomes...
...meantime, the University’s funding for the arts remains surprisingly intact. Despite university-wide budget cuts, the Office for the Arts has managed to maintain the grants and fellowships that fund students’ artistic ventures. At the moment, Harvard students enjoy support from Artist Development Fellowships, Music Lesson Subsidies, and OFA Project Grants...