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...reason is obvious. A few major-league screw-ups in recent years have sapped the UC’s credibility to the point that every week without a catastrophe still seems a small victory. To its credit, the UC has moved on from losing thousands on attendee-free booze cruises and concerts to focus on what it apparently does best—very little...
Harvard has unveiled to much acclaim the proposed Institutional Master Plan for its Allston campus. But I wonder where the community master plan is. Harvard has to its credit begun to plan a “green campus” in Allston. Where is the planning to make Allston/Brighton a “green community”? So much good could come of a real partnership, where Allston extends to Harvard a neighborly hand, and Harvard helps create the urban fabric and the open space, the properly scaled campus and the cultural resources that will make Allston attractive to residents...
...added that his tax hike and controversial smoking ban were other “investments” that had turned out to be “good for the people of New York.” “The public is a lot smarter than we give them credit for, so maybe we can stop pandering to them,” said Bloomberg, echoing his disapproval of Washington party politics. The mayor was more optimistic about state and municipal governments. He evoked the words of Harvard Law School graduate and former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, who dubbed...
...most part, the film continues in this cloyingly earnest vein, dedicated to telling its quasi-inspirational story with no jokes beyond the understanding of small children. (Lucky Charms cereal deserves an acting credit for its centrality to the plot.) The Farmers live in a town where everyone knows everyone’s business and the county fair is the event of the season...
Most of all, the authors give little credit to the reality that Oxford is, in fact, in England. Like many Harvard students who are too caught up in their studies or extracurriculars to take a semester off to study abroad, I had never lived in a foreign country before attending Oxford. The experience of living in a different culture—particularly in a place as diverse as Oxford, where the majority of graduate students are international—was perhaps the best learning opportunity...