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...Harvard’s nearly $26 billion total. In fact, Harvard ranks behind peer institutions like Princeton and Yale in terms of arts and sciences endowment per student. And in fiscal year 2004, just 13 percent of the College’s endowment was unrestricted in use. Harvard cannot legally lift these donor-imposed restrictions to use the money for the College’s financial aid whims. We thought we were so loaded, but alas, no cigar: Harvard does not have an infinite well from which it could draw the nearly $200 million a year necessary to make...
...acknowledge that the “immigration issue” has a human face. By demanding recognition, the students in the streets have made themselves a part of the story. They have added a new element to political decision-making.Whether these protests will succeed in the short-term, I cannot say. But the next time politicians start to brag about how tough they’ve been on the illegals, I sincerely hope they think harder about the thousands of young people marching in the streets, trying to protect their mothers and fathers. That might not be a revolution...
...victim as real and present in the courtroom as the killer is. In the sentencing of Timothy McVeigh for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, however, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch asserted the right to bar any victim testimony that was too emotionally loaded: "The penalty phase hearing here cannot be turned into some type of a lynching," he said...
...prepared to put memory and mourning on the witness stand, Moussaoui prosecutor Rob Spencer told the jurors: "You cannot understand the magnitude of that day unless you hear it from the victims themselves." On Thursday the jurors heard the heartbreaking calls to emergency operators from people trapped in the burning towers; watched a videotape of the carnage; heard Rudy Giuliani talk about seeing victims jump from the 101st floor rather than face the flames. The New York City mayor said the image of two people jumping together, appearing to hold hands, remains with him, every day. Prosecutors planned to play...
...piece of legislation,” exclaimed Clinton. “It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scripture because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself.”As a Christian who feels the same way, I cannot help but praise Clinton’s audacity to point out the hypocrisy of her Republican counterparts. Yet some critics, most notably President George W. Bush, have criticized Clinton for her remarks. But does that mean Clinton and other Democrats hoping to make arguments in the name of religion should...