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...Drag Night a success, especially for the student performers, who enjoyed the positive support of many their fellow classmates. Marco Chan ’11, one of QSA’s co-chairs, noted that the performance night brought diversity to the QSA’s programming, to the benefit of members and outsiders alike. “Pushing those boundaries of gender perception and conformity is really interesting, and again it’s an exercise that rarely happens at Harvard,” Chan said. —Staff writer Edward-Michael Dussom can be reached at emdussom@fas.harvard.edu...
...Like any institution, Harvard provides low-level jobs, but they arise as a secondary benefit to individuals and the community. To argue that exemption from taxes implies some obligation to provide “secure” jobs would be to argue that other institutions, such as churches, must also hire a certain number of people. This claim is ridiculous, just as is SLAM’s belief that Harvard has a responsibility to create low-level employment opportunities...
Working with communities is key because local people benefit economically from the resources around them and they value them. African elephants used to be poached mostly by farmers - an elephant would raid someone's crops and it's a year's worth of work and their entire income, so of course he's going do everything to stop it. But now you have organized gangs that come and kill groups of elephants on purpose for profit...
...thing that would bring this treatment from the lab bench to the patient bedside: patient-specific stem cells. Because stem cells from donated embryos would not be genetically matched to the patients who need them, in practice, treating a patient with a spinal cord injury or diabetes who could benefit from the cells would create the serious possibility of immune rejection...
...power, that's more difficult to achieve." After Washington and Caracas expelled each other's ambassadors last year, Kozloff adds, "Chávez faces a difficult choice: either proceed with his rhetorical strategy against the U.S. and risk alienating those in Latin America who want to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, or come to a diplomatic understanding with the White House...