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...also more cost-effective because more of the space can be used to generate research and research grants.”But some faculty say they think the changes are largely superficial, more indicative of a fad than actual improvement: “Why are miniskirts better than long skirts or pants? It’s a question of fashion,” says MCB Professor and current Fairchild inhabitant Guido Guidotti. “Now, the fashion is to have large labs where everybody’s together.”Some professors have also questioned the rationale...
...There are some things we’d be better off without: jaywalking laws, spam (definitely the email kind, maybe the “food” kind too), pollution. But as I finish my third and final year as a student at Harvard, and as the college has quietly done away with transfer admissions a year after announcing a two-year suspension of the program, I continue to hope that Harvard doesn’t permanently decide that transfer students are one of the things the school is better off without than with. I fear that institutional inertia will...
...irritating as a group like SLAM can be, the next time I read an overly shrill statement given in support of one of their campaigns, I’ll at least respect the fact that they’re expressing an opinion in an effort to make Harvard a better place. It’s their silent opponents who are doing Harvard the disservice...
Obama appears to believe that many of the world's most intractable problems can be alleviated by better communication and understanding. Similar themes are likely to be echoed in his Cairo speech: a call for dialogue and understanding that flows both ways, and which the Bush Administration, with its tin-eared visions of global transformation, sorely lacked. When Rice spoke in Egypt in 2005, she cast the democratic project as an American success story that would soon spread through the Arab world. "The day is coming when the promise of a fully free and democratic world, once thought impossible, will...
...John McHugh brings a great intellect and strong leadership capabilities to the position of the ranking member. The Republican leadership of the Armed Services Committee could not be in better hands." - Representative Duncan Hunter, on being succeeded by McHugh as ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee. (The Syracuse Post-Standard...