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...report suggests that risky investment practices have already had both short-term and long-term consequences for local communities...
...report proposes that Harvard’s 310 cost-reducing layoffs resulted in a $53,709,863 loss and deepened the recession for the local economy...
...parents of her Chinese roommate at Harvard—a local couple that served as her unofficial tour guides last summer—looked down at the bustling traffic below and nonchalantly asked Fitts to take a picture with them on the glass panel...
...weeding out criminals for positions of power. Take your second reform, for instance, that bishops should have more power. Before then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's 2001 letter “Crimen Sollicitationis,” that effectively centralized reports of abuse to the Vatican (over the heads of local bishops), people like former Archbishop Bernard Law of Boston were able to keep reports from spreading, hush up victims and relocate offending priests, without either the Vatican or civil authorities knowing. This system was deeply flawed, and to advocate even a partial return to it shows only a deep ignorance...
...past week, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) unabashedly joined the jingoist wing of his party. Supplementing his earlier support for Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, “The Maverick” launched a television advertisement shamelessly catering to militarists. In the video, McCain, accompanied by a local sheriff, argues that if we swell the ranks of the U.S. Border Patrol with 3,000 new agents, deploy the National Guard, and complete the 700 miles of “danged fence” between the U.S. and Mexico, trafficking, trespassing, and murder in Arizona...