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...entire horizon, and I pause for a moment at the junction heading north. But I am encouraged by my scrappy little orange Sunfire and its full tank of gas, so I step on it and plunge headlong into the gray. The sunlit mountains fade slowly behind me, and I enter a cold world, hoping that spring is just around the corner. It is beautiful, as only nature's adversity...
...presidential search committee of 1991 was attracted to Rudenstine’s progressive vision of uniting the University, but they also brought him to Harvard for a more imperative purpose. Harvard needed money-and fast. Enter the first-ever University-wide Capital Campaign—requiring a planning process that tied the various faculties together as never before. With the Faculty of Arts and Sciences running an operating deficit, fundraising was about to become everyone’s favorite pastime—and Rudenstine’s life...
...substance from which all life on the earth has sprung and continues to depend. If we run short of oil and other fossil fuels, we can use alternative energy sources. If we have no clean, drinkable water, we are doomed. As the 6 billion passengers aboard Spaceship Earth enter a complex new century, few issues are as fundamental as water. We are falling far short of the most basic humanitarian goals: sufficient and affordable clean water, food and energy for everyone. "I cannot bear to watch the nations cry," wrote Derek Walcott, the Caribbean-born Nobel laureate, whose poetry often...
...Most students did not enter the building with enough schoolbooks to last them for more than two weeks. And Harvard University Police Department rules prohibit the delivery of anything but food for the students occupying the building...
...Jews during last year's visit to Israel. But in Syria he may have bumped into the reality that it's difficult to make friends with both groups while avoiding being drawn into the enmity that rages between them. Indeed, had he not been the first pope to enter a synagogue and go miles further than any of his predecessors to signal support and affection for Jews, the political fallout of what transpired on Sunday when he became the first pope to enter a mosque may have been disastrous for the peacemaking pilgrim...