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When the hubbub of the parade had died down, I set out on my quest to find the closest Taco Bell—700 Commonwealth Avenue. On my way, I considered the effectiveness of such a promotion. How could a company get away with giving every person in America a free taco...
...which could set up shop near Logan Airport. Some Harvardians might gasp to think that such vice could soon be only a Blue Line ride away. But such opponents of Patrick’s casino plan must realize the greater good that it figures to do for the Commonwealth as a whole. Massachusetts faces a number of problems with which Harvard students rarely, if ever, concern themselves. Many residents are being pushed out of the state by mounting costs, including Massachusetts’ notorious property tax. Furthermore, casinos in nearby Connecticut already drain huge amounts of gambling money from Massachusetts...
...close the gap, the big hotel groups are currently focused on no-frills hotels in booming economic centers like Bangalore, as well as leased residence hotels. The Indian government, concerned about the shortage driving up prices and eager to create more options by 2010, when India will host the Commonwealth Games, is pushing for families to turn their homes into bed-and-breakfast operations. Faiz Dadarkar, a Jaipur entrepreneur who set up the Jaipur Pride network to match travelers with homestays, was astounded when 4,500 people responded to his billboards in 2005. He organized five training seminars. "We covered...
...must act not just as students and staff, historians and computer scientists, lawyers and physicians, linguists and sociologists, but as citizens of a university, with obligations to this commonwealth of the mind. We must regard ourselves as accountable to one another, for we constitute the institution that in turn defines our possibilities. Accountability to the future encompasses special accountability to our students, for they are our most important purpose and legacy...
...simply to explain ourselves to an often critical public, but to hold ourselves to our own account. We must act not just as students and staff, historians and computer scientists, lawyers and physicians, linguists and sociologists, but as citizens of a university, with obligations to this commonwealth of the mind. We must regard ourselves as accountable to one another, for we constitute the institution that in turn defines our possibilities. Accountability to the future encompasses special accountability to our students, for they are our most important purpose and legacy. And we are responsible not just to and for this university...