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...people person.”“People do not get suspicious of him or frightened of him or get doubtful of his sincerity,” he says.Since Harvard has had a contentious history with Cambridge, avoiding a similar relationship with Boston is crucial. Spiegelman, who has worked with local residents in Allston to incorporate their ideas into the University’s plans, says she thinks Gordon is sincere about listening to residents.“I feel very supported, and that he understands completely how important it is to have the stakeholders in Allston as much...
...formal addition of this language to Harvard’s non-discrimination policy will have some tangible effects. “The change offers recourse for people who feel they are discriminated against on Harvard’s campus,” Thoreson said. Harvard has taken the crucial first step by opening up the protection of non-discrimination to transgender members of the community, and the Corporation should be praised for its decision...
...crucial element of the overhaul has been financial. The palace now directly spends a lot of the money that different government departments used to spend on its behalf, which has allowed it to take control over its own operations, establish budgets and cut costs that might otherwise have continued on autopilot. (One example: the certificates people receive when they obtain honors are now generated by computer rather than calligrapher, saving $27 approximately 5,000 times a year.) There's more public disclosure too, in particular an annual financial report launched at a press conference and published on the Web. Last...
Four teams—Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, and Penn—boast records better than .500. That makes every match-up between the teams crucial in the hunt for the Ivy title...
...team at Duke University, one detail continually makes its way to the forefront of the media storm: The alleged victim is an exotic dancer. Of course, it’s to be expected that people would take at least some notice of this fact, given that it is a crucial part of the sequence of events that explains why she was at the team party in the first place. However, in a troubling number of newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, television discussions, and my own daily conversations, the fact that this woman is a stripper is advanced as some sort...