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...mindless pursuit of an easy A. This claim is ill-founded. Students already seek out easy core classes, and lower workloads do not necessarily translate into inferior classes. An extra chapter of reading or a problem set per week doesn’t mean that the course will affect the way the student views the world in a greater...
...Asian passersby, who also tend to compliment Zhou’s playing more than Asian listeners.Zhou garners the most compliments on days that are neither too humid nor too dry. He explains that the snakeskin drum of his instrument is very sensitive to humidity, and extreme conditions will affect the quality of the reverberations.“I am not as good as the professional players, but I know what ‘good’ is,” Zhou says.A DANGEROUS PROFESSIONPerforming in the Square is not without peril—Zhou’s collection...
...Mart a hero or a villain? Will immigrants help or hurt the wages of native workers? Do sweatshops alleviate or exacerbate poverty? Will a gasoline tax hurt oil companies or consumers? How does limiting trade affect a country’s well-being...
Beyond basic comprehension and citizenship, markets profoundly affect our daily lives. Whether we are shocked to find no tomatoes in our dining halls or are writing a paper on a computer made in China, it has become impossible to escape market forces. Economic factors also affect our major life decisions, including deciding where we live, what we do, how much education we get, and what our standard of living is. Given the importance of markets, we think it is critical that a Harvard graduate have both an understanding of how they work and an understanding of their failures and shortcomings...
...team of developers at the Apache Software Foundation to decide whether these changes merit inclusion in official software releases. Sometimes people try to submit “junk code” and vandalize Apache, but such submissions rarely pass preliminary stages of review and certainly never affect any final product.Despite concerns about quality control, open-contribution projects such as arXiv, Apache, Linux, and Wikipedia have all competed well against similar proprietary initiatives for this reason: Established or presumed credibility is the main metric by which members of open cooperatives decide how much weight to attach to any contribution. Perelman?...