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...Pays to Be Nice I was disgusted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Her attitude is from the aggressive 1980s. It is ridiculous to claim that there is a correlation between nastiness and giftedness. Some nasty people happen to be gifted, but it is not their nastiness that makes them so; on the contrary, it diminishes their effectiveness and costs their companies in both dollars and goodwill. I would not want to have a Steve Jobs or anyone on my team who "scars" his employees. Warren Buffett and Jimmy Carter, for example, do not find...
...narratives from anonymous authors that reveal chilling, first-hand accounts of sexual assault. Such a collection of stories insinuates that this kind of crime is much more prevalent than the average student would believe, which is exactly what the editors had in mind. “Sexual assault does happen at Harvard,” says Saturday Night editor Azeemah Kola ’10. “It’s not something that happens to other people that we never hear of.” Although the style and format differs from piece to piece, each article comes...
...universities to amend licensing policies for new drugs so that the poor are ensured access to the fruits of academic research. For Harvard students en route to a multitude of careers, Kim said that “having the experience right now of getting involved and watching the change happen is really something amazing.” During the event, UAEM members circulated the Philadelphia Consensus Statement, a policy statement that the group released last year urging schools to “promote equal access to university research,” “promote research and development for neglected...
...meeting, UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the primary advocate of the proposal, said that “unlike any other time in the last 50 or 60 years when students have been talking about this issue, this is a time when change can and will happen if this referendum goes through...
...loving God.” But in the face of such a pointless and cruel squandering of human life, his theodicy is unconvincing. The question seems trite until a tragedy like this strikes: “How could a benevolent God allow this to happen...