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Under the terms of the agreement approved by the city council, Harvard received permission to build taller buildings than the Carlson petition would have allowed in return for creating a public park on its land and building low-income housing units for city residents. The University plans to construct graduate student housing in Riverside...
...jury began weeding through 5,200 different designs last August before narrowing the field to eight finalists who were then asked to construct actual models of their design. The entire process was anonymous, and the jurors met with various interested parties throughout the process to solicit their opinions...
...that it’s beginning to feel some heat, the administration is reassessing its alternatives. The latest news is that they’re working to construct an expedited FDA approval process that could sanction FDC procurement in a matter of months. We’ll see. It is unlikely that any such process will be set up before September, at the earliest. In any case, establishing a parallel approval process to the WHO’s is not the solution. This would just pave the way for political interference in future scientific decisions and, as Waxman notes, lead...
...preparing to oversee the implementation of a reshaped curriculum for Harvard College. And the proposals outlined in the recently completed curricular review report echo, almost precisely, Little Ricky’s thoughts. The opening paragraph of the summary of the principal recommendations concludes, “We aim to construct a curriculum that expands the choices open to our undergraduates as it prepares them to be independent, knowledgeable, and creative individuals.” The way to do that, the report concludes, is to replace what Summers The Elder termed in last year’s Commencement address...
...rest of the lecture, Jones expounded on why that construct has proven so persistent throughout human history. “One answer,” Jones said, “lies in the dread of ‘otherness’ … it may be that this alien is our own creation, the imagined antithesis of our own kin.” While that “mythological” construct, as Jones described it, gave the basis for racism, the motivation for racism, he argued, came from the fact that “someone always profits from...