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...invited to sign on to the statement but declined to do so, leading students to question whether the institution has lived up to its mission to “bring [its] knowledge to bear on the world’s greatest challenges.” In this context, MIT’s patent-pooling announcement appears to be an unsuccessful attempt to catch up with Harvard and other Boston-area academic-research centers in the race to deliver essential medicines to patients in developing countries...
...There was also an interest on the part of the Fly of thinking about the larger Harvard community and the stakeholders, and what would be the best in the context of these clubs,” said graduate board member Charles D. Atkinson...
...distribute. This line of reasoning continues with the assertion that since state intervention was presumed to distort market activity, there was a need to substantially reduce regulation in all sectors. It goes without saying that the limitations of this argument have come to the foreground in the context of the recent financial crisis...
...this context, Harvard must not merely pay maintenance staff enough so that they clean the school’s manifold facilities adequately; the College must pay employees wages that allow them a decent standard of life. They are obligated to accommodate students’ desires for stronger support of club sports, Yardfest, and other community-building endeavors around campus. Additionally, there are a multitude of socially beneficial initiatives that the University as a whole is undertaking at great difficulty; among these are the new science complex under construction in Allston, the new Engineering School, renovations to the University?...
...think you can force it—someone asked me what I would tell students if they want to dream something about the night before the exam. The thing I told them is to be excited about the topic and think about it in a larger context. The brain takes new information it learns and tries to see how to file it away—it’s a connective thing. Hopefully your brain will pick up on it and you can dream about whatever you need to take the test on tomorrow...