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...pressing concern. Faust was right-on in her speech when she said, “We need to do better.” Faculty at Harvard’s Center for the Environment should work closely with President Faust and the rest of the University administration to establish the economic base necessary for campus greening. In our pursuit of sustainability, we need to set quantifiable benchmarks for the near future. The University should take a cue from Boston and adopt a University-wide emissions reduction target. Until rhetoric and symbolic action are replaced by a commitment to lower emissions, Harvard?...
...history, according to Campbell. The report did also find instances in which members of the institution played important roles in the abolitionist movement.While Campbell said his main focus in compiling the report was to fulfill the charge given him by Simmons, he nevertheless hoped the report would establish an important precedent for other universities. “In my heart I always hoped and expected that the work we were doing here, if we did it responsibly, thoroughly and well, might encourage other institutions to take a look at their own history,” Campbell said. Brown showed...
...younger Royall, who served on an administrative committee at Harvard, would later donate over 2,100 acres of land to Harvard, and also leave funds to establish what is now the Royall Professorship of Law, the first endowed chair at the Law School...
...lethal injection could amount to cruel and unusual punishment and therefore violate the Eight Amendment. The Court, however, rejected such claims, arguing that, “Simply because an execution method may result in pain, either by accident or as an inescapable consequence of death, does not establish the sort of ‘objectively intolerable risk of harm’ that qualifies as cruel and unusual” punishment. Despite the Court’s willingness to dismiss Ralph Blaze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr., the two of the 3,300 death row inmates in Kentucky who brought this...
...though the fact of his birth does not make him a “Russian writer,” the utmost seriousness with which he approaches literature, very clearly on display in his debut novel, “All the Sad Young Literary Men,” does establish him as a writer in the Russian model. It is not that Gessen sees no room for levity in “Literary Men”—rest assured, there are plenty of the witticisms that make reading his literary magazine, n+1, so enjoyable—but rather...