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...them. It is the Faculty’s job to stay focused on issues that have a greater bearing over this university’s future. As Faculty members consider how they will vote on Feb. 28, they should ask what the no-confidence resolution is intended to accomplish. They should search their hearts and minds, asking whose interests they have in mind—is it merely theirs, or is it the whole University’s?The time has come to move past the melodrama that plagued last year. Summers has done his part; Faculty members must...
...music, an online payment service to rival PayPal, some sort of smart phone, a space elevator to transport stuff to the moon. (Don't laugh. Brin and Page can't seem to let go of that last one, at least as an idea to kick around.) To help accomplish its goals, whatever they may be, Google raised $4.2 billion late last year through a second stock offering...
...have been and will continue to be discouraged from seeking public service positions by the prospect of $2,000 in debt.The FAO ought to be encouraging students to seek public-service and public-interest opportunities over the summer, not erecting barriers to these ends. To accomplish this, it ought to offer waivers of its summer earnings expectation for students pursuing unpaid positions, especially those that serve the public interest. This waiver could also be offered alongside current grants that support students’ unpaid summer activities, thereby ensuring that students whose summer pursuits are recognized as valuable by the College...
...time rivals, defeated. A record that stood for seven years, overcome. To add to his already long list of accomplishments, senior co-captain Dave Cromwell of the Harvard men’s swimming team notched a Blodgett pool record for the men’s 200 backstroke Saturday. With a time of 1:44.93, he bested Charles Barnes of Brown’s 1999 record of 1:45.30 by .37 seconds, and led the Crimson to victories over both Princeton and Yale. “Dave has really wanted that pool record,” senior co-captain Bill Cocks...
...conservation is merely a “personal virtue,” one of the quickest ways for the U.S. to cutback on imports of oil is to stop using so much of it. Even with less than a full term left in office, there is much Bush could accomplish in immediately and realistically cutting America’s “addiction to oil.” Possibilities include a gas tax, increased subsidies for hybrid vehicles, or penalties for gas-guzzling SUVs. With the right economic incentives, consumers would be happy to pull...