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...whole island feels on a similar knife's edge. Should Raúl Castro weaken, there are still a dozen aging Ahmed Chalabis waiting in Miami to return from exile and divide the spoils among themselves. Should there be rebellion in the streets in Havana, there's still a state militancy that could bring blood to the Malecón. But the new generation of Cubans both here and abroad are of a milder bent, with gentler aspirations. A cabdriver I met launched into a familiar refrain: most of his family fled to Tampa when Fidel Castro stole their lands...
...selected honorees were chosen in a two-step process. First, a research group comprised of students and faculty from Harvard and the University of Oklahoma proposed names and narrowed the list down to about 100. The final choices were then made by a national committee of two dozen people. “It’s a very strong selection committee,†said CPL Director David R. Gergen, who co-chaired the committee with University of Southern California professor Warren Bennis. “It is composed of former honorees as well as faculty members from universities across...
...Davis’ research as a biologist has led him beyond the Cambridge plant collection to a far more storied one just a dozen miles away. For the past few years, Davis and colleagues from Harvard and Boston University have been perusing the notebooks of the famous naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, using his notes about his sanctuary at Walden Pond to uncover the drastic effects of climate change...
Have you seen everything Australia has on offer a dozen times before? Sure you have. It's a movie less created by director and co-writer Baz Luhrmann than assembled, Dr. Frankenstein-style, from the leftover body parts of earlier movies. Which leaves us asking this question: How come it is so damnably entertaining...
Corporations that want to support sustainability should encourage their employees to make changes on a personal level, environmentalist and consultant Adam Werbach said in a discussion at Harvard Business School yesterday. In his lecture to a few dozen students, Werbach said he came to this revelation after Wal-Mart contacted him to discuss its environmental impact. “When I first heard [from them] I literally thought it was a prank call,†he said. But at a meeting, a Wal-Mart representative said the company was committed to eliminating waste in its operations. For several years...