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...alleviate climate change. This year, in an agenda-setting piece by Bryan Walsh, we roll up everything into one megaproposal, a kind of 21st century Manhattan Project, using carbon-trading, alternative energy and an efficiency surge to get the most out of every kilowatt we produce--all with the aim of winning the war on global warming...
...increased interest in service-related jobs. A ROUGH ROAD TO TRAVELWhile those studying law are working in public service in greater numbers, their friends in the government sector seem to be heading in the opposite direction.Though it has prepared graduates for careers in many fields, the KSG traditionally aimed to place students at agencies like the Foreign Service, the Pentagon, and the Treasury Department. But in recent years, that aim has been overtaken by the allure of private sector careers.Clyde I. Howard, a 1991 graduate of KSG’s mid-career program and a consol general in Barbados, details...
Welcome to Advising Fortnight Café! We aim to provide you with the highest quality meals and customer service possible in order to bribe you to concentrate in our department! Enjoy your meal, and please stay for the panel discussion afterwards. Please! Please? BREAKFAST Tea and Liebniz Cookies with Philosophy: Served with a side of metaphysics and sprinkled with a light hint of useless-later-in-life. History and Science Donuts and Coffee: History and Science go together like donuts and coffee! Peanut butter and jelly! Pilbeam and vodka! Tea Stop with Lady Godiva in the English Department: Lady Godiva...
...Kolbe ’08, a special concentrator in Health Policy. The difficulty of pursuing a special concentration is not a matter of poor departmental organization, but rather an attempt to ensure that all concentrations are well thought out and in keeping with the College’s aim of a liberal arts education. Deborah D. Foster, director of Undergraduate Studies in Special Concentrations, notes that special concentrations are appropriate only for students interested in a more in-depth interdisciplinary study of an area that isn’t addressed in existing concentrations like History and Literature or Social Studies...
...exchange for tax breaks for supporting the arts. Complex rules and restrictions that have limited corporate investment in art to only the largest French companies are also to be relaxed and simplified to encourage smaller businesses to get involved. Similarly, loosening tight regulations on large art auction houses would aim to stimulate that trade, and in doing so increase tax revenues...