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Harvard University may be the gold standard of Ivy League institutions, but its own students have accused it of using unethical and predatory practices to bolster its massive $53.2 billion endowment while threatening to slash jobs and deny workers a living wage.
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Editorial: The Supreme Court shouldn't take up the Harvard affirmative action case The Times Editorial Board © (Charles Krupa / Associated Press) Students walk near Widener Library in Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in 2019. (Charles Krupa / Associated Press) The latest twist on the civil rights lawsuit against Harvard has the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Biden administration its thoughts on the matter. That makes sense, since the Trump administration weighed in heavily on the side of Asian American applicants who claimed that they were stereotyped ...
BY GEORGE AGHJAYAN For years, every time I was in the fourth floor conference room in the Hairenik building in Watertown, Massachusetts, I would stare at a huge map on the back wall. The 5’ x 8’ map was hand-drawn by Mardiros Kheranian in 1922. Those of us fortunate to have seen this map could not help but be drawn to it and be transported to the many Armenian villages it identified. Kheranian’s map is even more of a cultural and artistic treasure in a world where the Turkish government has attempted to wipe the names of these villages from modern maps.