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Student and worker protests erupted at Harvard Medical School yesterday after budgetary cutbacks made this week the last week of employment for nine janitorial workers hired from a subcontracted company...
Local smokers expressed mixed opinions about the federal tobacco tax increase that took effect yesterday. The tax, which increased the levy from $.39 per pack to $1.01 per pack, was approved earlier this year. For Massachusetts residents, this hike comes on top of the hefty $2.51 per pack state tax on cigarettes. Paul J. MacDonald, owner of Harvard Square tobacco shop Leavitt & Peirce, said that he was unhappy with the substantial tax increase. “We treat everybody like rockstars here [at Leavitt & Peirce.] And obviously the government feels the same way--they think that they have money like...
...move that will save tens of thousands of dollars, the course catalog, student and faculty handbooks, and Q guide will no longer be published in print. Beginning this fall, they will only be available online, the University announced in a statement yesterday. The initiative will not only shave costs and eliminate waste in a time of financial duress but will offer a flexibility unseen in printed materials like the course catalog, which “is significantly out-of-date before the first copy rolls off the press,” Barry Kane, registrar of the Faculty of Arts...
...self-study report required for the institution’s review for reaccreditation in October. The committee involved in the revising process currently has a “reasonably-completed draft report,” said Computer Science Professor Margo I. Seltzer, who presented the most recent version yesterday to the Faculty Council—the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—in order to incorporate the professors’ feedback. Seltzer said the committee will present a refined draft to the Harvard community in about a month to draw further commentary...
...believe some sources, the sherpas - the diplomats tasked with preparations for the meeting - have already done all the heavy lifting and the leaders have come together only to dot i's and cross t's. But after yesterday's dramatic double act by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who summoned press to a swanky hotel in London's Knightsbridge to identify their own "non-negotiable red lines" to quote the French politician's martial phrase, nobody can confidently rule out last-minute spats. Indeed, although the concluding press conference has been scheduled for 3.30pm British...