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...time he was done, 12,500 people had been laid off; an $80 million venture fund helped ex-employees with good ideas start businesses. He got the unions to accept performance-based compensation, a concept new to Swiss industry at the time. "Ex-Sandoz people say there is more freedom," says Novartis' elected employee representative Kathrin Amacker. "Ex-Ciba people say there is more drive and deadline consciousness...
...Watch” Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.Bujalski has a different perspective on VES’s place at Harvard. “I felt a little under the radar from the Harvard community at large,” he says. “But I found great freedom in that.”The VES department has produced its fair share of successful filmmakers from previous generations, as well.Richard L. Rosenthal ’71, one of the earliest concentrators, directed the eighth sequel to the original slasher movie “Halloween...
...letter, Conant wondered “how the free world is going to get through the next fifty years.” He then expressed confidence that, if Harvard were not destroyed, it would be maintaining its “traditions of academic freedom, of tolerance for heresy.” The connection between the two kinds of freedom would have been painfully evident in 1951. Human freedom—the privilege of self-determination—had very nearly been lost only a few years earlier, in World War II. And academic freedom—the special responsibility enjoyed...
...real significance for us in Conant’s letter is the immediacy of the threats to both kinds of freedom and the connection between them...
...ROTC students are trying to understand why the College has used Harvard’s money for equality of alcohol access, but not for buses to take them to MIT to learn to protect our freedoms. And why Harvard, which admirably does so much to support students’ freedom to choose their futures, does nothing to support their choice to serve our country...