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...June 5 G.O.P. debate, Rudy Giuliani summed up the bill's problem this way: "It's a typical Washington mess," he said. He's right, of course, but not for the reasons he thinks. Rather, the bill is a mess because it doesn't fully embrace its most important aim: amnesty. Instead, it is laden with punitive measures - designed to evoke a certain toughness - that will at most just keep illegals from participating. Amnesty, as defined by its opponents, has come to mean getting forgiveness for free. But under the Senate's current compromise, the path for illegals...
Glimcher, the immunologist who is chair of the committee, said the group’s aim is to make Harvard’s policies “user-friendly” for inventors...
...given financial and technical support to University projects that aim to archive Web sites related to specific and curated topics, rather than attempting a whole-scale archive of material on the Internet...
...addition to the Open Collection Program and the Harvard-Google Project, which aim to provide digital access to anyone with an Internet connection, the libraries have also focused on providing virtual resources, such as databases like LexisNexis or JSTOR, that are only accessible to Harvard affiliates. The Business School’s Baker Library, in fact, spends more on subscription electronic content than printed materials, according to the library’s executive director, Mary Lee Kennedy...
Thankfully, current plans within Social Studies are aimed at addressing this dilemma. Tuck said, “The long term aim is reworking the concentration so that we are clear as to why Social Studies is a separate concentration within the social sciences.” Then, hopefully, the communication between Social Studies and freshmen will simply focus on the necessary interests of a potential concentrator—such as a desire to learn social theory and apply that to a to-be-discovered focus area—and not how the concentration is especially difficult or special...