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Current Cambridge space limitations have blocked progress on the housing crunches that afflict both undergrads and graduate students. Undergraduate Houses are bursting at the seams and overflow dorms have become commonplace, contrary to the purpose of the House system. Space freed up in Cambridge will allow for the construction of a much-needed 13th undergraduate House. For graduate students, whose dorms are in short supply and of generally lower quality than those of undergrads, the construction of new dorms close together would create a tighter graduate student community and could increase their contribution to Harvard as a whole by keeping...
Other methods to stimulate dialogue have not fared well. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has introduced a bill for black reparations, H.R. 40, (the 40 is in reference to the unfulfilled promise to freed slaves for “40 acres and a mule”) at the beginning of each Congressional term since 1989. Each time, the legislation has died. The goal for proponents of black reparations is a national apology for slavery, Jim Crow and institutional discrimination, along with a national form of compensation. Exacting reparations through corporate litigation is not the goal itself, but simply a means...
...sure, slavery anchors the claim to repair: it has been estimated that the present-day value of expropriated slave-labor ranges to trillions of dollars, depending the rate of interest. Importantly, the emancipated slaves were neither compensated for this toil, nor treated as equal citizens upon their emancipation. Instead, freed slaves and their descendants were subjected to the Jim Crow period of legalized discrimination and segregation that dedicated a system of inferiority to them in all areas of life from residential segregation to educational separation and political disenfranchisement. The result was the continuation of the socio-economic subordination of African...
...also looking at their statutes of limitation for sex-abuse claims, which differ widely. A few, such as Florida, can pursue criminal charges in most cases, but some states don't allow prosecution more than one or five or 10 years after an injured child turns 18. That has freed most predator priests from criminal convictions and long jail terms. But neither side felt it won a resounding victory when the suit filed by a plaintiff against Denver's highly popular Rev. Marshall Gourley was thrown out because the statute of limitation had expired. Gourley maintains his innocence...
...stay competitive. Shim Kyung Joo was working at giant Sunkyung Chemicals' game division when the Asian crisis hit. The financially strapped chaebol had to trim its business empire, so Shim secured some venture capital from the government and turned his division into a software company called Wizard Soft. Freed from the dead hands of chaebol executives, Shim and his young gamemakers were soon spinning off hit products like Jurassic Era Primitive War II. The company has been profitable since its launch in 1999. Says Shim of his former employer: "They didn't know games, they delayed decisions and blocked...