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WIB is the largest business organization at Harvard College, and it comprises a bunch of very ambitious girls. The group, according to its mission, “seeks to empower a dynamic group of enterprising young women by uniting them through business education and experience.” WIB members...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Lay Off The Heels, WIB | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

Violence is still a significant problem in Boston’s public high schools, according to a recent study by a center at the Harvard School of Public Health. More than 40 percent of male high school students reported having carried a knife and almost 40 percent of male students...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Violence Plagues Local Schools | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

There are two ways of raisingaverage test scores: assist those at the bottom, and empower those at the top. Our society needs to do both.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Sep. 10, 2007 | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

Giuliani, however, seems to think it is almost impossible to overstate the risk. "We've never had a history of overestimating threats," says the former Mayor. "We underestimated by a lot the threat of Nazism." Yet when candidates give terrorists too much credit, they can inadvertently assist them in terrifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Giuliani's Tough Talk | 8/22/2007 | See Source »

Critics say other constitutional reform proposals - like one that appears to let Caracas suck governing authority from the very states and municipalities Chavez once pledged to empower - are part and parcel of the harder left turn he's taken after his re-election, which has seen the nationalization of utility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chavez's Push for Permanence | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

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