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...morning as they prepared to fan out across the greater Boston area for Harvard’s first University-wide “Day of Service.” The day’s early risers were treated to a breakfast of bagels and doughnuts, as well as an address from University President Drew G. Faust, before heading off to work on 28 different service projects, ranging from landscaping to preparing meals for the homeless. With participants from all nine of the University’s schools, and with $20,000 of funding, the inaugural Day of Service featured collaboration...
...market growth has slowed, and competition from imports is revving up. Indeed, Chrysler's first half domestic sales were down 2.3% from 2006, a year in which it posted a $1.5 billion loss. "Given how competitive the U.S. market has become, for us to grow, we need to address that balance," says Michael Manley, the Detroit-based executive vice president who is steering Chrysler's international efforts...
...claims that the “tangled pathology” and fragmented structure of black families led to high poverty rates among urban blacks. The three-day conference, “The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections After Four Decades,” began yesterday by addressing the report’s consequences and assessing the current condition of black families. The event was jointly sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), the Sociology Department, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. “The Moynihan report, I think, did not get a fair hearing...
...perfect president” of Harvard but excoriates the hundreds of University of California (UC) faculty who objected to his planned talk to the UC Board of Regents as representing “the worst of academia.” Chair Richard Blum invited Summers to address a private dinner for the Regents, and then retracted the invitation after faculty objected...
Instead, Blum invited Summers to address the Regents in private, without the opportunity for any meaningful public scrutiny or debate. The plan was apparently to honor Summers as an “expert” on higher education by giving him privileged access to the governing body of one of the world’s premier public educational institutions...