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...today's "knowledge economy," where higher education is essential for effective leadership and for technological advance. Harvard should help to lead a worldwide revolution in higher education, to ensure not just our own quality of education, but to help Africa, Asia and Latin America to foster world-class institutions to help build their own societies. It can do this through advocacy, through wise use of donor funding for international projects and by fostering far more active networks of international scholarship...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Sachs, | Title: Becoming a Global University | 3/13/2001 | See Source »

...airlines also allege that the FAA is reneging on a promise not to publish the detailed results and name names. For decades safety experts--at the FAA and at the airlines--have kept some information to themselves to foster frank internal discussions of mistakes, near mistakes or problems, and to find ways to improve. (The practice is not unusual--hospitals and doctors, for instance, do likewise.) According to several people present at the July meeting, Nick Lacey, the FAA's head of flight standards, assured the airline reps that the audits would not be made public. Last week Lacey, through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Safety Fight at the FAA | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...year-old Organization of African Unity, is designed to more effectively manage the continent's affairs as well as its relations with the rest of the world. If all goes to plan, the Union's executive council, parliament, court of justice, peacekeeping force and financial institutions will foster greater cooperation, end wars, promote prosperity and evolve into a single political body to rival NAFTA and the European Union. As Africa's leaders gathered in Libya this week to discuss the Union, Dr. Ali Treki, the Libyan secretary for African unity, spoke to TIME Cairo bureau chief Scott MacLeod about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Dawn for Africa? | 3/2/2001 | See Source »

Grizzle says the forum is also meant to foster discussion about what it means to be Christian and to be in a secular career field...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Christian Groups Plan Veritas Forum | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

...spirit of randomization, however, was not to make the Houses microcosms of the overall College only to have them walled off to other students. The point was to foster an environment that could include any and all kinds of students...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, | Title: On Food and Fairness | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

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