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Economist Phil Levine estimates that in a year with average endowment returns, 14 New England colleges would collectively pay around $1.6 billion annually in taxes if a 14% rate is implemented.

Despite high costs for parents, childcare workers are severely underpaid. “Providers themselves are not getting rich working a daycare job,” said Wendy Robeson, Wellesley Centers for Women researcher.

“If we’re going to make a clean energy transition,” says professor Jay Turner, “it will require deploying electric vehicles, batteries, wind turbines and solar panels at unprecedented scales”

There is no replacement for the loss of tens or hundreds of millions in federal support. As professor Phil Levine said, “If the asteroid is approaching the earth, putting up your umbrella won’t help.”

Psychology professor Tracy Gleason studies imaginary friends, and says they take the form of an object the child “animates and personifies”––a stuffed animal, a doll, or even a can of tomato paste.

“We’re talking about someone who was on a meteoric rise and then was accused and found guilty of assault, and his career basically ground to a halt,” said dean of academic affairs Michael Jeffries.

“Her Portmanteau” by Mfoniso Udofia ’06 explores the idea of birthright through a fraught reunion of a mother and her two daughters after years of separation. “What is each woman owed?” asks Udofia.