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Deacon said in an interview last week that colleges referred to this tactic as the “Robin Hood approach”—taking more from the rich to give to the poor...

Author: By Johannah S. Cornblatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Face of Reagan Cuts, Low-Income Admissions Drop | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...funding cuts to higher education, but many of the challenges and controversies experienced at Harvard by the Class of 1982 remain important issues today. Then as now, Harvard's relations with local residents were in the spotlight, with signs of progress and cooperation mixed with discontent and allegations of poor treatment by the University. Today's wrangling over Allston echoes disputes in 1982 over the Medical School's energy plant (MATEP) and the acquisition of land at University Place. The referendum to create a new Undergraduate Council raised perennial questions of effectiveness, independence, and minority representation in student government...

Author: By Cormac A. Early and Melissa Quino mccreery | Title: A Note From the Editorial Board | 6/3/2007 | See Source »

...tortured, and also to hit L.A.'s nightclubs with friends. Marketing and publicity plans for that film are tentatively moving ahead, although it's not clear when Lohan will leave her newest home, the Promises residential treatment center in Malibu, Calif. This week Lohan was to have begun filming Poor Things, a comedy with Shirley MacLaine. MacLaine and producer Rob Hickman issued a statement that, at Lohan's request, "We are trying to rearrange the shooting schedule to facilitate her working at the end of the shoot to coincide with the completion of her rehabilitation. We wish her love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Hollywood Cast Lindsay Adrift? | 6/2/2007 | See Source »

...children's toys and mobile phones," says André Boussougou, 40. His specialty is aluminum, which he sorts and sells to a pot manufacturer, and leather, which he hawks to a dealer who exports to Europe. "It's really two worlds in Gabon," says Ernst & Young's Watremez. "Rich, poor. There's nothing in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's Oil Dreams | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

Europe's carbon cap-and-trade system is off to a poor start because too many permits were issued by governments trying to protect their own industries. On the other hand, too few permits could cripple the American economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Auto Insider Takes on Climate Change | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

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