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...raise money, we are wholly unconvinced that the property at 45 Mount Auburn Street is the solution to Harvard’s social space woes. The UC, and the College at large, should look to more immediate, pragmatic ways to improve social space, such as focusing on house life. Given the financial realities, we have to work with the budget constraints clearly at play. To that extent, we urge students to look at resources already in place, such as Hilles—a space with promising options that gets underutilized because of its Quad location. Looking to the future...
...Wednesday night, during the commercial breaks of “So You Think You Can Dance,” I caught a few minutes of U.S. President Barack Obama delivering perhaps the finest speech he’s ever given. The jury is still out on whether his leave-it-to-Congress strategy was the smart way to go about reforming America’s dysfunctional health-care system, but there is little question that in his speech he assumed leadership over the nearly century-long effort to provide health insurance to every American man, woman, and child. Sometime...
...master criminal. He was born and raised in Milton, an affluent Boston suburb, and is a personable, articulate, and intelligent man. “Are you aware of my SAT scores?” he jokes. “They’re very high.” Given a second chance, he claims he would have chosen a different career path. “I imagine that I would have been a good doctor,” he says. “I would have enjoyed being the curator of a museum...
...chosen for their experience with art or security; another Sackler guard who also wished to remain unnamed because of the Museum’s press policy said they did not have any prior experience in security. The guard mentioned that all the Sackler security guards were given a day’s worth of training specifically focused on the protection of cultural items, but admits, “I kind of forgot what happened in the training.” Manoogian says that in addition to that training session, guards go through multiple other seminars over the course...
...named Joomiben, told us that she was born into the untouchable caste and spent the first 20 years of her working life as a migrating day laborer, transporting bricks and mud on her head for about 10 cents a day. When she joined SEWA 10 years ago, she was given the opportunity to do embroidery work for a salary. With her income, she was able to finance the construction of her own house for herself and her family. Because of her ability to make money, her life and the lives of her family members have been completely transformed...