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...corporations offering lucrative contracts. Brown University economics professor Glenn C. Loury, the first black professor to be tenured at Harvard, said he doesn’t think universities are reluctant to let in African Americans but that the culprit is the lack of qualified candidates. “The constraint here is on the supply side,” he said. “The problem is that the universities are producing relatively few black American graduates who are both interested in economics and qualified to study at the top programs.” Loury said he sees the lack...
...hello to skiing's wild child, a mountain prodigy who grew up plumbing-free, electricity-free and constraint-free in a house hand-built by his parents in a forest near Franconia, N.H. As a kid, Miller spent as many winter hours skiing at nearby Cannon Mountain as he did in the classroom. In his teens, he was all but dismissed as being uncoachable. But, last year his World Cup triumph was the first by an American in 22 years. His prowess is such that he could win a medal in any of five Alpine skiing events at the Olympic...
...AIDS initiatives. Este Lauder subsidiary Aveda found its customers responsive to its experiments in the use of recycled materials in bottles and other containers. Although the measures upped packaging costs 56% from 2000 to 2004, Aveda's operating profits grew 26%. "Instead of treating social responsibility as a constraint," Aveda president Dominique Conseil says, "make it work for you as a stimulus. The bottom line responds nicely...
...members of the Harvard community, we are disappointed with the cancellation. In the three weeks before the show, we spent hundreds of hours promoting, while critically evaluating how we ought to improve in the future. Secondly, we would like to present some information about who we are and the constraints within which we operate in working for you to bring great entertainment to Harvard. We hope that by increasing our communication efforts with the student body, we will ensure the success of future HCC events.The goal of the HCC is to foster a sense of community through campus-wide entertainment...
...research here as opposed to abroad and start earlier so they can work on their thesis,” says Jennifer E. Rood ’07, a Biochemistry concentrator, who worked at a microbiology lab in Germany this past summer. “I think that is another constraint. People find labs here and then they have to stay here.”“In general, biology theses have been done in Harvard laboratories under Harvard supervision,” says Biology head tutor David A. Haig.Administrators and students also cited pre-med requirements as a major...