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...self-interest ahead of sound policies and a guiding hand, but clearly they do so with a certain comfort that any public backlash will be muted. Even the newly re-minted Warner-Lieberman bill, which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2050, appears destined to fail...
...other nations with the same interests, than with people in the same nation with different interests (note American liberals’ respect for French liberals and incredulity at American neoconservatives). The subculture is the new culture.It is this truth that humanities departments at Harvard (as well as other universities) fail to grasp, as their scholarship persists in imprisoning subjects within the iron cage of nationality. The History and Literature concentration, for example, starts from the idea that by studying a certain time and location, we can learn more about the culture people create. While this may have been true when...
...system itself is the “safety net” intended to provide power during the few minutes the electrical power grid may suddenly fail, according to Harvard Computer Society president Joshua A. Kroll ’09. The system also provides a “blip in power” if officials briefly shut down the data center for electrical work, he said...
...answer is to conduct an experiment, as this is the only method we have for testing what really works and what is likely to fail. In the same way that we force drug companies to test the efficacy of their drugs before rolling them onto the market, shouldn’t we ask the government to test their ideas before they invest billions of our tax dollars on some stimulus packages...
...credit Harvard for teaching me this, above all other things. In an institution that glorifies conventional notions of success, I believe the most important thing I learned here was how to fail. Failures are not the prettiest moments, and on graduation day, one is reluctant to remember crying over a poor Expository Writing grade or the emotional crisis of the first month of freshman year. Yet, without these moments, I would not be so proud of where I am today. I would not have felt as much joy in my grade on the next paper. I would...