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...community property, and if the owners want it changed, they should tell the community how and why. On this point a university is different from a razor blade company. Harvard can’t bottle up the truth; misrepresentations are too easily exposed. So management is better off being direct and transparent with the stakeholders. At Harvard, the alumni-elected Board of Overseers, at least, has to buy into important changes planned by the President and Fellows. In recent years, this secondary governing board has been used largely as a booster club. People are more important than structure. Creating titles...
...Immigration? “Education is essential for upward mobility—people come here from all over, there are tons of Somalis and Ethiopians, for example, so we need a school system that ensures a basic level of literacy.” Race relations? “Direct conversation about race is so difficult. We have to have shared experiences, and this begins in the schools...
...used his office’s discretionary funds to contribute money to College concerts, House renovations, and more recently, the construction of a campus pub in Loker Commons and a café in Lamont Library.“President Summers’ interest in undergraduate life and his direct support of campus events—events that would have otherwise not been possible—has certainly helped to raise awareness that these are important issues,” writes Zachary A Corker ’04, special assistant to Gross, in an e-mail. “Without...
...contradict one another, and change with the times. Our decisions about (and knowledge of) the world are largely based on constructed images, not personal experience. I believe that Hilary Clinton is frosty and that Osama bin Laden crashed planes into the World Trade Center not because I had any direct experience with the former first lady or September 11, but because it appears that way on TV.In other words, because the world is too complex and broad for personal experience, we make use of unstable and inaccurate proxies. Seemingly solid facts, thoughtless orthodoxies considered True, are largely—although...
...Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University to calculate the mind-boggling quantity. They presented their findings at a conference in Boston this past January.Bilmes and Stiglitz say their estimate is four times the projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). But that CBO sum only takes into account the direct costs of waging the war, according to Bilmes’ paper, and it does not include the money the government must spend to replace worn military equipment or care for disabled veterans. A CBO spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter.As well as calculating the broader budgetary costs...