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This month, the Harvard Foundation's Student Advisory Committee (SAC) will begin to review applications for its spring grants. SAC members are currently setting new guidelines to make their grants process more fair. Their plans might yield some mildly helpful bureaucratic changes. Far more important, though, is a set of...
The Justice Department has been accused of dubious behavior in its investigation of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, an Italian institution whose Atlanta branch made $4 billion in fraudulent loans to firms owned by or doing business with Iraq. Justice investigators are charged not just with botching their probe into...
TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND CALL AGAIN IN 1998. THAT IN effect was the Rx prescribed for detractors by pharmacologist Hiroshi Nakajima as he vowed to strive for "harmony" during a second five-year term as director-general of the World Health Organization. His task appears daunting. In an atmosphere of...
A lot of whining for a relatively minor incident? Perhaps, though ultimately it cost me a day of my life. And the indifference of the Harvard police and the idiocy of Harvard's bureaucratic policies demand a response.
When he decided to run for the Secretary-General's job, those qualifications clearly helped. He was also helped by being African, though black Africans preferred their own candidate. Working against him was his age, an issue he defused by declaring that he would serve only a single five-year...