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Friday’s announcement that The Boston Globe will be shut down in early May if unions don’t agree to cost-cutting measures hasn’t fazed many members of the Harvard community. Talk about the shutdown began after executives at The New York Times Co.—The Globe’s parent company—threatened to close the Boston newspaper if The Globe’s unions did not agree to a decrease in pay and the end of company contributions to pensions, which would total $20 million. The announcement comes...
...Harvard softball (19-10, 5-3 Ivy) got a wake-up call in Green Line territory on Thursday afternoon, losing in a shutout to Boston University (25-11). Not including yesterday, the Crimson has been shut out in its last five losses...
Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel calls Bernie Madoff evil, and who better to judge? Both Wiesel and his foundation were wiped out, along with thousands of other investors in Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Families were ruined; victims have killed themselves; charities have had to shut down. So, what punishment could fit such crimes, and what are the odds that anyone will come away feeling that justice was done...
...financial-aid initiatives. Would non-traditional electives be tuition-free? Would Harvard subsidize exploratory “see-the-world” travel just for the sake of it? Without a dramatic funding increase to finance such holistic January experiences, students on financial aid would largely be shut out; to them it might seem more purposeful—and necessary—to stay home and find a temporary job than to rack up more loans for jet-setting and cooking classes. In the current economic climate, the College can’t afford to fund a JanEx...
...Fujimori's success, however, was based on reclaiming the image of the populist caudillo, or strongman on horseback, just as the continent was ridding itself of the legacy of dictators who had turned disappear into a verb when dealing with their political opponents. He shut down Peru's Congress and judiciary in 1992; he created an "emergency" government that gave him and his spooky security chief (Vladimiro Montesinos, who himself was convicted in 2002 on a variety of corruption and human rights abuse charges) autocratic powers; and he rewrote the constitution to allow himself to be re-elected...