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Almost from the time they were created 30 years ago, socially responsible mutual funds were routinely dismissed as the ill-conceived love child of trust-funded tree huggers and their spendthrift financial advisers. The conventional wisdom was that they didn't make much money...
...businesses, which had already started observing the CLC’s rules so dutifully that they were closing at 1:45 a.m. in order to ensure all customers had left in time. Though involved interest groups wanted a harsher penalty for Felipe’s, they should recognize the wisdom of the CLC’s decision. The Harvard Square Defense Fund, a group of older Cambridge residents, had lobbied the CLC in its last meeting to rescind the restaurant’s license because they were worried about students roaming around late at night around the Square. Members...
...sense optimistic that we can make a great deal of progress in terms of minorities and women,” King said.In an interview last night, Harper, who met King at Harvard Law School, said, “I am pleased that Harvard will have the benefit of her wisdom and experience.”The senior fellow of the Corporation, James R. Houghton ’56, did not return a phone call seeking comment. In a statement, he praised King as “a person of extraordinarily broad intellectual and professional interests.”King?...
...actions that cause real suffering today in the name of speculative benefits tomorrow." Even Europe's idealists realized, writes Judt, that "you cannot build a better society on broken men." When he analyzes how the communist regimes of Eastern Europe finally collapsed 16 years later, Judt argues against conventional wisdom: the credit belongs neither to Poland's Solidarity movement nor Ronald Reagan's big defense budgets, but to Mikhail Gorbachev as the true agent of change. The Soviet leader, says Judt, was cognizant of his empire's imploding economy and spooked by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. "If Eastern Europe...
...interview tonight, Harper, who met King at Harvard Law School, said, "I am pleased that Harvard will have the benefit of her wisdom and experience...