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...only current administrative post, and according to student manager Jeff Schwegman, the center’s staff consists of Schwegman and a financial staffer.Yet Darnton’s connections in the library world and his prominence as a proponent of online media promise to be a boon for Harvard. Darnton is a trustee of the New York Public Library and the Oxford University Press, and he drew the presidents of the Bibliothèque Nationale of France, the New York Public Library, and the head of Oxford University’s library to a conference at Princeton last fall about...
...Already, Cambodia suffers from rampant corruption, and there has been little transparency in the awarding of exploration contracts to foreign oil companies. Longtime Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed concerns that oil will be anything other than a huge boon for his country. But for the poor farmers watching the oxen decline to feast at the Royal Plowing Ceremony, the potential of oil revenues must feel completely removed from their hand-to-mouth lives. What will they do if a drought does indeed strike this year, and their crops wilt in the tropical sun? If the sacred cows know...
While amending or removing the Academic Index would likely be a boon for African-American representation—Lincoln himself is in favor of instituting nothing more than a simple floor—such a prospect is not only contentious, but unlikely. Instead, two main avenues for improvement in diversity emerge. The first deals with the efforts and identity of the coach itself, and the second with minority access in the long-term...
Although the lion’s share of recent progress has been the boon of non-western countries, the developing world still lags appallingly behind in basic health, economic development, and education. An estimated 39.5 million people were living with AIDS in 2006, while 2.7 million people die of malaria each year, 75 percent of them African children...
...mind the snub of the 1976 student poll.A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITYIf advocacy for calendar reform is louder and more widespread than before, it might be due to a largely unspoken hope among activists. Some see the University’s administrative situation as the activists’ greatest potential boon. Bok is scheduled to step down late this spring, and would therefore be able to implement dramatic changes to Harvard’s calendar without facing the University’s notoriously fickle Faculty. Asked whether he thought Bok would have the time or inclination to make such a decision, Petersen...