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What is a consequential stranger? If you look at the relationship continuum from stranger to soul mate, consequential strangers fall in that vast territory just beyond strangers and just short of friends. When people say they have 765 friends on Facebook, most of them are consequential strangers. Your hairdresser is probably a consequential stranger. Your lawyer may be. The person who comes in to clean your house and who has been doing it for 30 years might be a close consequential stranger. But you also have a lot of people on the periphery: the nice woman in accounting whom...
...that offer similar kinds of financial aid, so those that have financial aid for international students are a very attractive option. It allows us to be much more competitive,” Fitzsimmons said. Having travelled to China and Vietnam to speak to prospective students last fall, Fitzsimmons affirmed Harvard’s desire to bring in “students from all regions of Asia.” These recruiting trips have grown increasingly important as universities in Asia continue to draw more students from the region with scholarships and improving facilities. A report released by the United Nations...
...forming on Dunster Street. That’s what Robin Mount, interim director of the Office of Career Services, is calling the organization’s newfound partnership with the Office of International Programs—which was spun off from OCS in 2002 to highlight international programs. This fall, the OIP moved for the second time in roughly a year to be near their larger counterpart, a shift administrators say is intended to increase coordination between the offices’ offerings for undergraduates by creating shared office space, joint events, and further collaborating in their online efforts. Administrators said...
...tell whether Harvard has become more or less clean since the janitor cuts; there have not been any reliable metrics or significant outcry about this issue. However, Harvard maintains that it is doing everything it can to keep the campus clean, especially with the threat of swine flu this fall, and its actions thus far have been impressive...
...keeping clean, and other proactive measures, the university has been making a concerted and visible effort to keep students and the campus clean over the first few weeks of school. These efforts are necessary and will hopefully pay dividends if flu affects a large swath of campus later this fall. When labor groups attacks the university for its hygiene standards, they are making the mistake of criticizing a program that is both comprehensive and wise...