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...credit is so generous that some investors can't take full advantage of it each year because they don't pay enough taxes on their other income. Rather than let the credit go to waste, they sell a portion of their synfuel operations to another group of investors who are looking for ways to reduce their taxes--a sort of perpetual tax-avoidance machine that never stops giving...
Keeping that generous public spirit in mind, I’d like pose a problem which we, as a University community, can help to correct. Most people in the world do not have access to the medicines they need. In Africa, for example, less than one percent of the 4.1 million HIV positive individuals currently in need of treatment actually receive it. Most of the other 99 percent simply cannot afford the drugs. But universities like Harvard can help to keep drug prices down in developing countries, if they adopt the right policies...
...decision seems all the more confounding because Harvard has done so much good for me so far. It was a generous step for the University to embrace me as the first Palestinian official in the Mid-Career Masters of Public Administration program...
Here goes. There are 168 hours in a week. If we work 80 of these hours, we have 88 hours left. Let’s be generous and give ourselves five hours of sleep per night, which gives us a total of 35 hours of sleep per week. Let’s subtract two more hours per day for waking up in the morning, getting dressed, taking a shower, transportation to and from work, and doing mindless but necessary chores. This means we only have 39 hours left. Assuming we will not take pleasure in the 80 hours a week...
Gates too said Summers has been generous in supporting the department. “Every time I showed up in Mass. Hall with a proposal, after a rigorous and rigid back and forth, every time, President Summers has been right there with our department,” Gates, who is currently on leave at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, told the assembly. “I have full confidence in President Summers, and not only that, I happen to like...