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...immediately and said it would accept foreign aid.) But even if China is willing to speak out, it's hard to know just how much influence it would have on Burma's top brass. The extent of the regime's disconnect with reality struck me as I drove the broad, empty avenues of Naypyidaw. This is a country where roughly one-third of children were malnourished even before Nargis. Yet the generals saw no problem with spending tens of millions of dollars constructing a massive new capital. But even there, the disregard for citizens is matched only by the junta...
...traveling to developing countries. The $100 million gift of David Rockefeller ’36 in April, the largest donations ever given to Harvard by an alumnus, will be used in part to fund these international programs.“There’s no excuse for students, especially broad-minded students at Harvard, not to be spending time abroad,” says Wu, who also says she appreciates Harvard’s study abroad programs and infrastructure. “Unless people do this, the gap in poverty, the developmental issues, will not be solved...
...have been partners with the city and the community in the three-year process to create the North Allston Neighborhood Strategic Framework for Planning, which led to a broad vision for the neighborhood that will help guide our evolving plans. And during scores of public meetings over the past few years, the Allston Harvard Community Task Force and the city have helped guide and shape plans for a new Science Complex that will have an extraordinarily positive impact on many lives...
...cheap enough for India and China to buy. "If you care about the environment, you have to have a strong interest in science and technology," says Gingrich. "It's not a question of political will. It's a question of whether we can deliver a series of solutions with broad enough support that it's easy for politicians...
...infrastructure committee, then, has a lot to think about as it takes up the task of retooling Harvard’s campus. It hasn’t got much to rely on. It shouldn’t be either broad or minute, but both at once; it can’t be traditional or radical, but some hybrid of the two; and it can’t even assume that space means the same things to new students and old designers. But the stakes are high, and the decisions it makes are ones in which we should invest our most...