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...oils. Their Kandahar-based cooperative Arghand now exports to Canada and the U.S. "You don't even need to compete with opium on a straight price level, since there are other risks and taboos associated with growing opium," explains Chayes. "The best way to combat opium production is to expand the market for Afghanistan's fruit...
...tenure or those who are on the path to tenure. “It’s quite the opposite at Harvard,” said Brian W. Casey, the FAS associate dean for academic affairs. “There was a conscious decision around the year 2000 to expand the tenured ranks.” Tenured or tenure-track professors make up 62 percent of the Faculty at Harvard. Though Harvard might claim to contradict the study’s trend, John W. Curtis, one of the report’s authors, said that universities like Harvard have...
...agreement was signed back in 1996,” Rosché said, adding that it came out of a close relationship with Albert Carnesale, who served as dean of the Kennedy School from 1991 to 1995. Rosché said she hopes the gift will help expand the activities of the Center for Public Leadership. “It’s really going to be their show from now on,” she said. “We hope to bring more dollars to the table to make it even bigger and better.” Endowed gifts...
...this event makes it unique. “We’ve never really had a theme before, and this time we do because we wanted to focus on a particular part of the museum,” he says. “But we also wanted to expand the boundaries of how you can interact with a museum, and it’s so exciting because each event is unique, and each tour has never been given before.” Bridging the gap between the museums and the students will be particularly important in coming days...
...said violinist Colin Jacobsen, of performing at Harvard, who also helped to arrange the piece. “The purpose of school is to experiment.”In the final two years of its residency at Harvard, the Silk Road Project plans to continue to expand the breadth of its music. “We are hoping to bring a composer from Uzbekistan next year,” said Freid. “Each time we come, we’re experimenting with different kinds of residencies.”But the future remains uncertain. As Freid...