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...necessarily) blame the Harvard administration for this. Much of the endowment is in the form of restricted funds. But, I still shudder when I hear that the Undergraduate Council of the richest university in the United States has to collect "ePloids" from Frito-Lay bags in order to replace its 10-year-old computer. Was I the only one who found it hard to swallow that the monitor on the council's computer required a paper clip to turn...
...Eventually we would like to see an adequate endowment for graduate student financial aid, an endowment that would have to be on the order of $200-$300 million," Ellison wrote in an e-mail message. "The Development Office and the Graduate School Harvard has a very real commitment to its graduate students, as to its undergraduates, to make the educational experience here as rich and productive as possible...
Barkley suggested the council cut back on big-name bands at Springfest in order to double funding to House Committees and fund a "Fallfest" in the Quad featuring student bands...
General Augusto Pinochet has won a tactical victory, but Chile's former dictator remains in a posture that military men may term "armed retreat." An appeals court judge on Monday dismissed a house arrest order against the former dictator on a technicality - the investigating judge had failed to interrogate Pinochet before issuing the order, as required by Chilean law. Judge Juan Guzman had sent Pinochet a questionnaire during the general 503-day detention in Britain, but it had been returned unanswered. Now the matter will be referred to Chile's Supreme Court, which may rule as early as Thursday...
...complaints in the Chilean courts. Judge Guzman had pressed charges of murder and kidnapping arising out of the "caravan of death," a 1973 campaign in which a group of military officers toured the country rounding up opponents of Pinochet's junta and summarily executing them. The judge's arrest order came as a surprise, since he had previously ordered medical and psychological tests to determine the general's competency to stand trial, and had not been expected to indict Pinochet before the results are received sometime in January...