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...Everyone involved with college admissions and administration recognizes that the rankings have enormous impact,” James M. Fallows ’70, a former editor of U.S. News, wrote in the Atlantic Monthly last fall. “They affect the number of students who apply to a school, donations from alumni, pride and satisfaction among students and faculty members, and even the terms on which colleges can borrow money in the financial markets...
...Boston janitors are represented by Service Employees International Union Local 254, which also represents Harvard’s janitors. Though these contract negotiations do not include Harvard workers, they will affect janitors at area educational institutions including Northeastern...
Circumventing an open discussion of HLS policy with the students whom it will directly affect, the Air Force waited until the very end of May—after law students had already left for the summer—to send the letter threatening to cut Harvard’s funding. That letter listed a deadline for HLS’s decision as July—long before the students return in the fall. This clever timing allowed the Air Force to bully HLS while no one was around to defend the compromise that was in place, making these dealings particularly...
...other hormones of the digestive system play a role, but also researchers are learning that they must account for the influence of such mood-altering neurotransmitters as dopamine and serotonin, as well as the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol. And then there are melanocortins, brain chemicals whose power to affect weight loss and gain is just now coming into focus...
...episodes showing a stripper's brutal murder, Dr. Melfi's rape and Tony's beating of his mentally ill mistress. Italian-American groups and some women complained, and the president of NBC sent a tape of one episode to other executives, asking how the show's envelope-pushing would affect TV as a whole...