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Students, graduates, and faculty of Harvard have a long tradition of invention and entrepreneurship. The Harvard-educated founders of Microsoft, Facebook, and City Year—to name just a few—took inspired chances that led to greatness. Falling back on what is expedient and simple is not the Harvard way, and that is not what Harvard should do now in Allston and Brighton...
...idea is “just to give back to the community and to be an example to other businesses,” said Graham...
...night of the crash, two F-15Es, which specialize in ground-attack missions, had spent close to three hours supporting grunts near the Pakistan border. But on their way back home to Bagram air base, they decided to practice high-angle strafing runs against 7-ft. dirt mounds in the middle of a dry lake bed. While they wouldn't actually fire their 20mm guns, the pilots had decided to practice one of the Air Force's most dangerous missions - diving toward the ground amid mountains on a dark night. Their heavy night-vision goggles, which work by amplifying existing...
...have to make absolutely positively sure that this recovery evolves into a self-sustaining economic expansion, and that is what this is all about," says Mark Zandi, an economist for Economy.com who has advised both Republicans and Obama. "If we go back into recession, it's going to blow out the budget, and it's going to cost the taxpayers a lot more...
...President's logic is at odds with the initial premise of TARP, which was sold to Congress as a loan program that would be mostly paid back to the Treasury, where its proceeds would be used to pay down the deficit. "The $700 billion program we have proposed is not a spending program," former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson explained before Congress in September 2008. It didn't take long for Republicans to take that position. "The stimulus money clearly was a spending bill. TARP was a loan - a loan to be paid back. And we know that a number...