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...support for American public education is—and seems likely to remain—severely lacking. Exclusive contracts with soft drink companies provide school districts with urgently needed funding to pay for vital educational programs—programs that might otherwise be cut. The amount of money at stake is not negligible. Last month, for example, Florida’s Hillsborough County Public School District negotiated a 12-year contract with The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. for $50 million. Until governments fund public education appropriately, schools should not be forced to give up such a significant source of financial...
Levy said he suspected that there were other unstated interests at stake in opposition to the land sale, including Governor W. Mitt Romney’s previously-stated desire to dissolve the Turnpike Authority...
...vocally anti-Zionist Irish poet. But it was arguably the national coverage of the incident that gave the English department the extra push to re-extend their invitation. While never the sole determining factor, the media attention nonetheless cemented the belief that free speech itself was at stake. Harvard’s English department could not be seen to compromise on those values...
...because, despite the results of The Crimson’s Friday poll, the question of war really shouldn’t allow for in-betweens. We can’t “somewhat” send our troops into battle. When so many lives are at stake, every citizen has a responsibility to take a stand. This doesn’t mean that we all should choose sides and line up for a battle of the bullhorns in Harvard Yard—as long as the Iraq war has the support of our government and a substantial majority...
...shares at 92.5% of its value by the end of April and may make additional offers. If the fund’s performance holds constant, that price will exceed the Dragon fund’s current price due to its discount. HMC would then liquidate its 14% stake in the fund...