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...overflow River housing of the DeWolfe and Claverley complexes. Much of this space is currently occupied by faculty. Yet Faculty have access to cars and can easily live off-campus--undergraduates cannot. It makes more sense for this prime campus space to be occupied by students and to assign faculty to subsidized housing more removed from the heart of Harvard. Converting these buildings into spaces wholly devoted to student living and folding them into the existing House system would also end their status as ambiguous halfway houses, neither House nor apartment. All Harvard students have a right to be well...
Another practice, still hotly debated, is to assign credits for sequestering carbon in growing forests. Trees soak up limited amounts of CO2, release oxygen into the air and turn carbon into wood...
When Harvard College created a lottery in 1995 to assign students to the upperclass Houses, it sought to end the exclusivity that had turned some of its Houses into jock dorms and others into elite enclaves...
...first American to show "primitive" art in an "advanced" gallery--this being in the fall of 1914. Anthropological museums showed jumbles and heaps of African artifacts, but Stieglitz--whose eyes had been opened to such things in Paris by Picasso, Matisse and others--was ready and willing to assign an inscrutable Ivory Coast mask the dignity and singularity of an old Florentine bronze, or a new Brancusi. Today critics might find some unconscious bias in his belief that African art was close to the art of children: instinctive, untutored, vital. And because he thought much the same about art made...
...combined. What's more, she ruled on those cases without revealing to the opposing counsel her relationship with Fletcher. It's not uncommon for judges, especially elected judges like Chrzanowski, to send a little business to their friends. It is vastly uncommon--in fact, profoundly unethical--for judges to assign loads of cases to lawyers they're sleeping with, and then preside over those suits...