Word: charityitis
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You are running the Boston Marathon. Somewhere in the 26.2 miles from the Hopkinton start to the Boston finish, you begin to have doubts. More than half of the course is behind you, but Heartbreak Hill still looms ahead—that steep one-half mile ascent. ?...
Joshua Redman ’91 is positively infuriating. The winner of the 2008 Harvard Arts Medal, he was that guy: the quintessential Harvard student, the one who cures rare diseases and can whip up a mean soufflé—or, in Redman’s case, solves...
While the panelists agreed that it’s important for outsiders to build schools and supply scholarships, they stressed the necessity of empowering Sierra Leoneans—not making them dependent on charity.
“Receiving is a negative form of charity,” Beah said. “We need to nurture the spirit of giving back.”
“Harvard does not seem interested in a relationship with the community,” he said. “They just say, ‘We’ll throw some money at this neighborhood, we’ll do some drive-by charity, and throw a...