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Tired of the endless political rhetoric from the presidential candidates, three Wigglesworth residents have started a last-minute "Vote Neil" campaign for Harvard's top administrator...
...Reports of global warming, damage to the ozone layer and long-term atmospheric shifts caused by deforestation raise further doubts about unlimited growth. Even though much of this evidence remains controversial, it has already transformed the debate about progress. For the first time we find ourselves asking not whether endless progress is desirable but whether it is even possible, as we have known it in the past...
...FUTURE. Have any two words excited more hope, prompted more dreams and visions? Has any fact better defined the modern world than the shift from seeing the future as an endless cycle of repetition of the past to seeing it as a straight line of progress into the unknown? Has anything contributed more to the wellspring of all progress -- the relentless variety of human curiosity and invention -- than the belief that the future can and must be different, bigger, better...
...could produce, while the rest of us figure out what we could use. The late Congressman Ted Weiss's Defense Economic Adjustment Act shows how to go about it, as does the fine new book Dismantling the Cold War Economy, by Ann Markusen and Joel Yudken. The possibilities are endless: high-speed transit systems, waste-disposal technology, high-tech machinery that we now (like any Third World country) are forced to import...
...think to make this information public? Did no one think? All I wanted was to become a more rounded individual--and the endless, mindless, senseless, hopeless morass of Harvard Bureaucracy defeated me utterly...