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...conditions for tenants of the dilapidated facility. The Board rejected two previous Harvard offers, maintaining that those sites lacked adequate access to amenities like public transportation. But the Board agreed to formally review the Brighton Mills offer at a meeting on Monday, and last night Chair of the Board Abraham Halbfinger characterized the proposal as “the best Harvard has come up with so far.” “I think this site has transportation readily available, which is very much similar to what [tenants] have right now,” Halbfinger said. Tenants...
...Bill Clinton often seemed daunted and uncertain in his dealings with the military. Bush and Cheney have been the opposite. They rushed to war in Iraq without adequate cause or preparation. This is not to say that military service is a requirement for leadership in time of war; neither Abraham Lincoln nor Franklin Roosevelt was a combat veteran. But for 50 years there has been a growing cultural chasm between the military and the rest of society. Those of us who haven't served have a special responsibility to listen to and try to understand those who have. The most...
...history from Harvard in 1912—becoming the second black to receive a doctorate from the University. Fourteen years later, he founded Negro History Week, selecting a seven-day span in February that included the Feb. 7 birthday of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Feb. 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln. A half-century later, as Woodson’s invention gained popularity, the week evolved into a full month. But last December, Woodson’s brainchild weathered criticism from actor Morgan Freeman, who suggested that Black History Month should be abolished. “I don?...
Positive psychology, meanwhile, was just starting to gather steam as a distinct field within psychology. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, pioneers like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers had decided that the positive side of human nature was under-represented in psychology, and they wanted to turn their attention instead toward things like self-actualization and happiness. They founded humanistic psychology, but according to Ben-Shahar, the discipline quickly morphed into self-help and pop psychology...
...lead in the fourth game slip away. He gave up five straight points, losing the game, 10-8, and the match, 3-1.Suchde defeated Gilly Lane in three games at No. 1 and Ilan Oren swept Benjamin Ende at No. 3. Ostrow defeated William Simonton in three, while senior Ryan Abraham lost in four games to Nick Malinowski.“Considering that we had a sickness and an injury, number five Garnett Booth is very sick with a fever, and Niko Hardy, who hurt his hand last Saturday and had the bad news that...