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...stirred discontent among some library staff members, but it comes as the library’s overall budget is increasing by nearly five percent...
...phone interview yesterday, however, Law School Dean Elena Kagan said that the overall library budget will increase by 4.6 percent, or $615,000, and that determining where these extra funds are spent was Martin’s responsibility...
There are four million Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, who do not have freedom; furthermore, twenty percent of Israel’s internal population–the Arabs–is heavily discriminated against, a fact well-documented by numerous Israeli NGOs. Its actions in Lebanon which displaced a third of the population and killed 1200 Lebanese civilians drew censure from all corners. To descend from his own ivory tower, Schor needs to understand that people are able to condemn the human rights abuses of both the Iranian regime, and the Israeli government. No state should be immune to legitimate...
Among the spectators assembled was Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter, who watched the event from his University Hall office and said that he was “100 percent behind the students’ efforts...
...rest of the developed world. Nevertheless, when one puts hard numbers to the bromide, it becomes, well, much less of a bromide. According to a report released earlier this week by ACT, the company that is responsible for the eponymous college entrance examination finds that only 26 percent of American students who graduate from high school having taken a college-preparatory curriculum are in fact prepared for college-level work. If these findings are correct, they point to an alarming decline in the quality of secondary education in America. What’s more troubling is that, despite these results...