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...community can only hope that this committee makes good on its potential.The University’s decision was prompted, in part, by a series of controversial encounters between HUPD officers and minorities on campus. The most recent of these incidents occurred in August, when two HUPD officers confronted a black high school student working at Harvard for the summer as he tried to remove a lock from his bicycle. To be sure, HUPD officers generally discharge their duties with professionalism and distinction, and they provide an invaluable service to all in the Harvard community. But the emerging pattern of racially...
...Chronicle reported that the suspects were described as two white and two black 17-year-old males, which, according to the advisory, did not constitute a “detailed description...
...Harvard investment managers, that folded last July and took $350 million of Harvard’s money with it. Despite this early blow, Harvard Management Company, which invests the University’s endowment, credited its practice of monitoring external investments with keeping total returns in the black. The downturn accelerated in recent months as lenders spooked by steep losses and high-profile bank failures have tightened their purse strings. While recent government intervention has calmed markets somewhat, Harvard’s money managers wrote in their annual letter to investors announcing this year’s returns that they...
...step back - for the most part - from an intensifying political debate, perhaps mindful of the last presidential campaign. In 2004, John Kerry had used 9/11 to blast George W. Bush for holding back a key intelligence report, and the same day he accused Republicans of trying to disenfranchise black voters. Bush's camp refused to reply, calling 9/11 "a day of remembrance and reflection." This year the candidates seemed to agree - or maybe, with only 53 days before the election, they just wanted a chance to regroup before the campaign gets back under...
...having pledged allegiance to Rome in the Second Century; and in the 14th century, the southern town of Avignon even served as the temporary home to the papacy. But France is also where modern anti-clericalism became ascendant with the 1789 Revolution, which eventually led to the thick black line separating church and state known as laïcité, and the arrival of humanist reason as the guiding principle in contemporary culture...