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University spokesman John Longbrake was slow to acknowledge the problem that such “underwater funds” may pose as the current financial crisis brings unprecedented losses to the University’s endowment, saying only that it was “probable that [Harvard] will see underwater [endowment] funds” in the current fiscal climate...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith spoke explicitly of the problem presented by underwater funds at a November 18 faculty meeting, and University budget officials have been drawing up budgets for the coming year with these limitations in mind...
...should I be part of a society that doesn’t want me?” O’Brien said. “I decided to stop being part of the solution and [start being] part of the problem...
...House, Americans are again quick to congratulate themselves for triumphing over prejudice. But, though Obama’s mixed background and encouragement of diversity are an essential first step in breaching racial divides, we should not be naïve enough to believe that racism no longer poses a problem in America...
...brief look at the numbers makes this clear. According to a CBS News poll conducted earlier this year, three out of four Americans still believe that racism and sexism continue to be serious problems, and over six in ten African-Americans had recently heard a racist remark. A 2007 Department of Justice survey also found that blacks and Hispanics are more than twice as likely as whites to be searched, arrested, threatened, or subdued with force when stopped by police. The mere fact that an African-American was elected does not mean that there were people who specifically...