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Bridging the income-education gap is one of the most important tasks Harvard faces, and Summers has publicly recognized the urgency of this issue—saying that he believes academia is not doing enough to promote more equitable access to education. Yet if the University is to overcome the prevailing conceptions of Harvard as a bastion of the wealthy, this administration is going to have to put its money where its mouth is—at least considerably far more money than it has previously. Raising awareness about admissions policies and financial aid programs is not easy...
...This is the one thing that concerns me most,” she said. “I think I’m inclined to let people know how they can work with library resources to get over this gap...
...else: political clout, hearts and minds, democracy. In Iraq, we have learned that the power to knock a man down doesn't teach him how to be a good democrat. The second was the tragic (or almost criminal) indifference to the deadliest problem in the affairs of nations: the gap between means and ends. Your Administration's ends were driven by cosmic ambitions: bring democracy to Iraq, wipe out Islamic terrorism, remake the Middle East. All of this with 130,000 troops who were to stay no longer than 18 months? Vast ambitions cannot be financed out of petty cash...
...that is why reporters hate to ask such questions. But in the world of amateur athletics, after all, this is true drama. This is how emotions are conveyed, how the athletes and non-athletes bridge the gap. What it required, though, was pain: a reopening of a predestined wound...
With the graduation of star forwards Peljto and Tricia Tubridy ’04, Harvard will now have to look elsewhere for the first time in two years to fill the gap down...