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...Faust says she will focus initially on gaining Boston’s approval of the 50-year master plan, filed last December, and breaking ground on the planned 500,000-square-foot science complex...
...Harvard is a complex, diverse institution,” he says. “It would be a very narrow-minded, counterproductive approach to say they must all be alike...
...doom and gloom? Part of this Chicken Little complex can be explained by rose-tinted nostalgia, but such pessimism also reflects deep-rooted self-doubt, a certain suspicion of man’s ability to handle his promethean powers. Caution transforms suffering into virtue and material progress into sin; this psychology of self-denial suggests that we are sowing the seeds of our future destruction with our present prolificacy. If this sentiment merely led individuals to forswear their own possessions, it would be rather harmless for society. But unfortunately, the modern ascetic impulse informs a wide range of misguided policy...
...don’t believe the reactionary “nattering nabobs of negativism,” who demand self-sacrifice for deliverance from impending doom. The challenges of our age will not be solved by self-righteous prating and an overblown guilt complex, but by practical, self-confident innovation, and a recognition that capitalist consumerism has brought clear-cut benefits for the vast majority of mankind...
...interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, their support has been enthusiastic and unwavering. Their remarks when the announcement was made are indicative of Harvard’s institutional priorities. As Bok said, “The college admissions process has become too pressured, too complex, and too vulnerable to public cynicism. We hope that doing away with early admission will improve the process and make it simpler and fairer...