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...initiative will also involve Zukerman Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters. Waters and Putnam will lead a summer program at Manchester focusing on immigration. Sander said that program funding will also cover additional Harvard faculty involvement and research trips for graduate students. Putnam said that the two countries?? varying experience with social issues will be illuminating. The U.S. has been “forced to deal with the issue of immigration longer than the British have,” he said. “But in terms of the workplace, the British are ahead of us. They have...
...Interesting how the pope apologizes here not for giving voice to the idea that Islam is evil but for the “reactions in some countries?? to the controversial quotation. He acknowledges that the words “were considered offensive” by Muslims but he does not say that the words were, in fact, offensive. One would expect this type of apology from a politician, not from a spiritual leader who is supposed to possess more than an ounce of honesty and sincerity...
...fall of 2004, the College put in place restrictions prohibiting students from receiving academic credit or funding for study in 26 countries??including Lebanon—under travel warning by the U.S. State Department, citing concerns about student safety and liability issues...
...teams on the Harvard campus win as often or as triumphantly as those that occupy the Newell and Weld Boathouses. The men’s and women’s programs have combined for 30 national titles. Olympic boats—both from the U.S. and many other countries??quite often have a Crimson tint to them. I’ve been spoiled most of my conscious life by Oklahoma football and Kansas basketball, though even their frustrating collapses on the biggest of stages pale in comparison to the consistency of Harvard’s crew programs.But enough...
...Treasury secretary said in remarks prepared for delivery at the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai on Friday, March 24.The return on investment could be substantial, Summers said, noting that over the last decade, the average university endowment in the U.S. achieved a real return close to 10 percent.Since countries?? central banks are bound to draw political flak when their investments dip, Summers instead suggested that the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank back the creation of an “international facility” to invest those assets.“It is an irony...