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...seems counterproductive to point an accusing finger at Summers without highlighting his opening statement which provided a grander vision for Harvard University as a potential change agent for mediating solutions between the developing and developed world. Summers stated, “I am convinced that the public health of the developing world and especially Africa is the single issue that has the greatest significance for humanity over the next half century.” Furthermore Summers went on to add, “New knowledge makes a huge difference in our ability to prevent, to contain and to treat disease...
Such calculation may also explain why iTunes doesn't support Windows Media Audio files--a Microsoft format that Bill Gates had hoped would become the music-industry standard. If iTunes becomes the player of choice for PC users, it would be a blow for Microsoft's grander audio ambitions--and may well unearth the hatchet that Jobs and Gates buried back...
...students, with their proximity to life at Harvard, might be able to discern. It will ensure that the Board is getting an accurate representation of the views and values that modern Harvard students have and can decide whether incidents are isolated or must be dealt with on a much grander scale...
...joined her husband in launching their most famed drive: the New Life Movement, which directed the Chinese to be dutiful, disciplined, loyal and clean. Toward the grander end of curbing the spread of communism, men were told not to wipe their noses in public, soldiers not to spit, pedestrians not to urinate in the street. Everyone was required to forswear opium...
...ancient Soviet threat that used to fuse them together; they now confront a whole slew of new threats neither can manage on its own - from terrorism to aids, from creeping protectionism to the collapse of failed states. Why not raise our sights above the headlines and consider a grander bargain? Think about the golden age of American diplomacy in the 1940s that was described so poignantly in Secretary of State Dean Acheson's memoir, Present at the Creation. The deal was as breathtaking as it was simple: instead of going back to the old balance-of-power politics...