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Increased endowment taxes could represent 10-20% of operating budgets for institutions, impacting “many aspects of what they do, including the availability of financial aid,” said Phillip Levine.

Yelyzaveta Zablotska ‘27: “We’re international students, not political pawns... But we must remember why we were drawn to this country in the first place: because it is a nation for dreamers.”

At Harvard Medical School and the School of Dental Medicine commencement, Paula A. Johnson called on graduates to be “citizen-physicians.” “To be able to heal confers an obligation to heal,” she said.

From an early age, U.S. Rep. Emily Randall ’08 of Washington state’s 6th Congressional District seemed destined to enter politics to fix what she viewed as wrongs in society.

“Never forget your power to improve a life — or a structure that affects many lives,” said Paula Johnson. “No matter which corner of medicine you chose as your own, you will help heal the world.”

Economist Phillip Levine estimated Yale’s tax bill could jump from $46 million currently to $691 million under the tiered plan. MIT’s could go from $27 million to $411 million, according to Levine.

This past weekend, members of Wellesley’s COVID class of 2020 officially graduated. Here & Now producer Kalyani Saxena ’20 was one of them, and she reflected on that rite of passage with Asma Khalid.

For 40+ years, the Elliot Norton Awards have honored the best of the best on stage in Greater Boston. Among this year's nominees are several plays in the Ufot Family Cycle by Mfoniso Udofia '06.

The proposal threatens to cost Harvard about $850 million a year, Yale $690 million year, and Princeton $586 million a year, according to estimates by economics professor Phillip Levine.