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Della Volpe said that this decrease may be caused by the realization that the issues the president has to deal with have “no quick fixes??. He also attributed the change to a different communications perspective...
...they sparked countless initiatives—though initiatives less focused on immediate and public ‘gratification’ or ‘quick-fixes?? than on carefully crafted structural and policy changes which seemed to promise significant long-term benefit to the College and its students...
...most part, solutions involved technological fixes??reducing the emissions of pollutants either by pre-treating fuels prior to combustion or by installing devices in the smoke stacks of power plants and factories, or in the tail pipes of cars, to accomplish a similar objective. Alternatively, we opted to switch to less polluting fuels such as natural gas. In either case, the solutions involved increased expense. We have been modestly successful in addressing the issue of air pollution in more affluent societies. It remains serious, however, in large developing countries such as China and India where coal...
...This demand goes beyond a simple call for improvement in the lives of people who currently work at this school. It is a demand that Harvard’s actions reflect the principles and values of those who make up the Harvard community. Short-term political “fixes?? that help to blunt the worst effects of Harvard’s employment and contracting policies are not acceptable alternatives to strong and principled solutions that actually eliminate poverty from Harvard’s campus for good...
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