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...reforms, residents wondered whether their long-awaited antipolitician could realize critical projects like transforming the city's abysmal schools or breaking its dependence on the low-wage tourism industry. In a city suffering some of the nation's highest poverty and crime rates, African Americans questioned whether their concerns fit on Nagin's pro-business agenda. One of New Orleans' leading black ministers, Bishop Paul Morton, even called Nagin "a white man in black skin" a few months after the election...
...Monday at midnight, with the goal of raising money for hurricane and earthquake relief. If they succeed, they say, an anonymous donor—to whom they refer as the “Contender”—has agreed to purchase a boat large enough to fit the team and the zebras. The group, dubbed Team Zebra, plans to “take a cruise” while raising money for disaster relief, according to their website, www.teamzebra.org. In return for funding the nautical equine escapades, however, the Contender has demanded half the proceeds—or profits...
...domestic relief efforts while ignoring graver crises elsewhere. Even with its $25.9 billion endowment, of course, Harvard can’t respond to every cataclysmic event. And it shouldn’t. Alumni donors never gave University administrators carte blanche to shell out cash whenever and wherever they see fit. Harvard’s comparative advantage is in education. Here in Cambridge, Kennedy School professors are training government officials in emergency-management techniques, and Design School students have drawn blueprints for tsunami-resistant houses. Clearly, it would not be in the global interest for Harvard to close up shop...
...note the difficulty of expressing in quantifiable terms as mutable an idea as “economic diversity.” While I admire and support Harvard’s current push to encourage more lower-income students to apply—and certainly hope that the university sees fit to admit fewer of the super-rich—a little recognition from the administration for families such as those I have described would be appreciated. No one needs to be reminded that there are students here whose personal allowances could easily cover their tuition, but my parents...
...spend our entire lives presiding over the classroom, but I would argue that everyone who makes it to a premier educational institution like Harvard should at least give it a try. Here are my top ten reasons why:10. Unleash your creativity: Teaching doesn’t have to fit the stereotype presented in that classic movie of 1986 (anyone? anyone?): “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” No topic (except perhaps the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act) can prevent good teachers from constructing lesson plans that pique their students’ curiosity. All-star...