Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Vice Chair Athan G. Tolis '91, who formally oversees council attendance, differed sharply with his superior last night, saying that only two members had been given their walking papers--not enough to make Sunday's meeting binding...
...discussion of investment oversight comes at a time when Harvard has increasingly made substantial investments into high-risk areas, which now make up more than 20 percent of the entire endowment. According to the 1988-89 Financial Report, the University now holds nearly $1 billion in "private placement investments," which include venture capital, leveraged buyouts and real estate...
...itself, that proves nothing. Who cares about the size of the slices if the pie is larger? But Government interest payments do nothing to make the pie any larger -- except to the extent that the borrowed money was invested productively. And the share of Government spending going to productive investment has declined over the decade, as our crumbling infrastructure can attest. So interest payments on the national debt have made at least a small contribution to income inequality without any growth payoff. If traditional welfare is paying people not to work (a common gripe), this is the capitalist equivalent: paying...
...Shirley Chisholm, Gloria Steinem and Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich. Barbara Bush wasn't Wellesley's first choice this year; that honor went to Alice Walker, black author, single mother and Pulitzer prizewinner, who declined. To women in cap and gown who have worked hard to be able to make it on their own, having a wife and mother on the podium may feel too diminishing, like getting on Nightline and then having to wave to your...
...their politics/ Frustrate their knavish tricks." Last month the Church of England's Liturgical Commission suggested substituting a kindlier version, written by a London shoemaker in 1836, for use when the anthem is sung at Remembrance Day services for the dead of the two World Wars. Sample lines: "Lord, make the nations see/ That men should brothers...