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Elizabeth Mora, a 10-year Mass. Hall veteran who currently oversees Harvard’s budget and financial planning, will step down as vice president for finance in May, the University announced yesterday. In its press release, the University notably omitted any reason for Mora’s resignation, which will take place in mid-May, rather than on July 1, when administrative changeovers often occur. Dan Shore, who is now director of budgets and financial planning, will replace Mora in an interim capacity. University spokesman John D. Longbrake said that Shore would only serve as “acting...
...Super Bowl is known for its prominent and high-budget beer advertisements, which this year took up four minutes of commercial time. While the beer ads that show up during the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) yearly basketball tournament are not nearly as infamous, a substantial portion of its advertising is for beer. According to the organization’s own bylaws, it cannot advertise for hard liquor, but it only puts a cap on the amount of beer advertising that can be shown during a game—a cap that was exceeded in at least...
...vociferously disagreed. “We had to beg the Alliance to come to the committee meetings and care enough to respond to this,” she said. But Davis said she thought that the City’s agreement with CHA did not require a line-item budget explanation. Other councillors said they shared Davis’ uncertainty, leading the Council to add the amendment requesting clarification of its arrangement with CHA. Keefe could not be reached for comment before press time. –Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu
...When I noted that 20 years ago, this would have been considered “selling out,” Congleton interjected: “Shit was completely different [back then]. They had expensive and ridiculous writers, or they had cocaine and filet mignon as part of a recording budget...
...situation, may leave Sarkozy no option but to return again to the front lines of government. His cost-cutting announcements this week involved just a few of the 166 programs he's targeted to claw back over $10 billion in annual spending, with the aim of balancing the French budget by 2012. That will provoke considerable pain and resistance from the public, and doubtless more slides in polls. That, in short, is Sarkozy's dilemma: to be an effective, decisive leader, he'll also have to be a very unpopular...