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...Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. ’76 at the Harvard Law School. Atlantic Monthly senior editor Corby Kummer moderated. The panel, co-sponsored by the HLS Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law and arts and entertainment nonprofit Creative Coalition, was organized to create conversation about the function of celebrities in aiding national causes. A part-time New Orleans resident, Shearer uses his weekly satirical radio show Le Show to remind the country of ongoing post-Katrina suffering and to suggest practical engineering solutions to the city’s problems. “I found myself forced...
...primary function of the Ad Board is to deliberate and pass judgment on Harvard students’ behavior as it relates to student life. This year’s “Adminstrative Board Guide for Students” lists the “resolution of alleged infractions of College rules, breaches of community standards, or other disciplinary matters” as one of its three purposes. By failing to define the abstract notion of “community standards,” however, the Ad Board is presumptuous. Rather than adhering to its intended purpose, namely, to determine...
...mean that the names of the givers will appear in the Harvard College Fund’s annual report, listed as either associate or century givers,” says Senior Gift co-chair Brooks E. Washington ’06. Associates are also invited to an annual social function in major United States cities for all associate-level givers of all graduating years, says Washington. In the bustling Quincy dining hall, many seniors were supportive of the gift in general. “I like Harvard a lot,” Camille I. Johnson ’06 says...
...enemies will set among us individuals whose primary function is to object, to dissent, to find fault with our traditional mode of living, until that which we know to be right, begins to feel suspect,” Bernard “Ed” Alton, author of the “Taskbook” admonishes. “In the end, we must pity them: we are going forward with joy and hope; they are being left behind, mired in fear...
...quite literally-a big thinker. In his examination of the intertwining of economics and politics, he once termed America a "democracy of the fortunate," and his ideas underpinned U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program. He was known for his witty, often acerbic directness, once noting, "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." The concepts in his watershed book, The Affluent Society, became so pervasive that to subsequent generations of readers, "It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations," said Nobel-laureate economist Amartya Sen. "You realize where they came...