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...people in disadvantaged communities in Boston, Singhal said. “He wanted to build a sense of community in the organization, and he wanted the volunteers to understand the importance of what they were doing,” Singhal said. “You’d never guess from the way that he behaved that he was so brilliant,” said David Mattos ’09, who worked with Cai in the same laboratory and as a member of the Harvard Premedical Society, “He was very humble, very diligent, and very quiet...
There is a bright line, though. And I would guess that Sotomayor crossed it when she agreed in 2008 to toss the results of a promotion exam for the New Haven, Conn., fire department because an insufficient number of minorities passed it. That seems inherently unfair to those who succeeded - including the dyslexic firefighter Frank Ricci, who hired tutors to help him pass and whose name adorns the case. The lack of minority success does not necessarily signify the presence of racial prejudice. The best way to rectify such a situation is to make sure the next test is truer...
...historian, you have insight into how kindness has evolved over time. With that knowledge, how do you think it will evolve in the future? One thing we can safely guess is that a society in which inequalities are less grotesque [would] encourage much higher levels of kindness. It would be wonderful to imagine that we might be heading in that direction, but we've sure got a long...
...even be talking about this if we didn’t have some pretty extraordinary events in the economy,” says Joshua D. Coval, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. “It’s pretty easy to second-guess these decisions...but basically, I think all of those were reasonable things to do in normal or even mildly unusual circumstances.”John P. Huchra, former vice provost for research policy, cites bad luck as the source of Harvard’s current fiscal quagmire...
...guess they weren’t carding very aggressively back then,” said Michelle M. Seery ’84, who added that the change in the drinking age did not have an impact on her life...