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...captured the world’s attention. With the hope of pressuring the G8 leaders to seriously address African poverty at the Gleneagales summit, the “Make Poverty History” campaign and its U.S. counterpart, “ONE,” launched a multi-million-dollar international publicity blitz of commercials, concerts, and wristbands designed to raise awareness—not money—for the poor of Africa. As Tom Hanks said at the end of the ONE television spot, “We're not asking for your money. We're asking for your...
...crunched some more discouraging numbers. I'd always heard that freedom had a price. And soon I'd determined what it was in my case, driving my mammoth, inefficient truck: 30 a mile. This meant that my high-speed gallop along the highway was costing me roughly a dollar every two minutes. I couldn't have been more flummoxed if I'd been told that I now had to pay a dime for every breath and a nickel for every heartbeat...
...news of stepped-up fundraising overseas comes at a time when Harvard itself is in a “quiet phase” early into a new capital campaign. Harvard had originally planned to begin a multi-billion dollar fundraising effort in 2006 or 2007, but it appears increasingly likely that the drive will begin in 2008 or later. The University may now be reshaping its pitch to alumni to emphasize the coming development in Allston instead of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review...
...give all undergraduates more social options. Advocates are, however, realistic: the Women’s Center was always intended to be just one facet of the response to the need for social space, not a fix-all. After all, how could one college-controlled space compete with 12 million-dollar-plus mansions...
...leading Yiddish scholar, met 19-year-olds who have written books or started their own companies, traveled to Yale to play a match of club tennis, taken the oldest public transportation system in the United States to see a symphony and shop on Newbury street, and partied at million dollar mansions that masquerade as clubs for 20-year-olds. Harvard may have shattered your dreams of attending colleges like those in Animal House, Old School, and Girls Gone Wild, but in reality, our time here might not be as bad as we all sometimes make it seem...