Word: furthering
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In the debate over slavery reparations, the link between "oppressed" and "oppressor" is obscured. It is hard to identify who among the current population has been wronged, or to define what level of reparations would be fair. A gap of more than three generations separates today's Americans and the...
As November rapidly approaches, it appears that another president will be chosen without the voice of American youth. In the last presidential election, less than a quarter of us voted, and similar results are expected for this one. Only 30 years after the voting age was lowered to 18, are...
Fortunately, the effort to educate and mobilize youth regarding gun control has started here at Harvard. Youth at Harvard Against Handgun Violence, a new group started by about 15 undergraduates, is beginning to spread the word around campus. Our first meeting, on February 15, featured Mass. State Rep. Cheryl Jacques...
"During his speech tonight, Gore mentioned Clinton, saying 'that under the President, we've created 21 million jobs.' Then he took it even further and said that under this president 'we stand at a mountaintop moment in our history, with the longest period of economic growth.'"
That has Fed chief Alan Greenspan mildly concerned. When stocks fall, margined portfolios fall faster. What should make him lose sleep, though, is knowing that home-equity loans--now shooting beyond $500 billion--account for an unknown level of further market speculation. When home values and stocks rise together, "the...