Word: helpfulness
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Audience member Betsy Kunkel, who works for the non-profit HIV/AIDS resource center the Boston Living Center, wanted to hear from Crowley about how the administration plans to help the HIV/AIDS community...
...near-term political value, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet and Finance Minister Andrés Velasco (the latter on leave from the Kennedy School) took the lead to create an investment fund that would not be tapped for ongoing operational expenses. The fund could be used to help the Chilean economy avoid an economic collapse; when the worldwide financial crisis broke out 18 months ago, the Chilean government was ready with a countercyclical budget—it spent to cushion the downturn and reactivate the economy...
...looks good, and it should be better. Neither Chile nor Harvard won the lottery, but, together, we are doing something better—not relying on chance but investing in some of the brightest and hardest-working young people to learn and generate knowledge and, in so doing, to help create a better world...
...Quinn’s low on energy what with being preggers and all. Luckily, though, Sue plants marital suspicions in Terri’s mind and convinces her to become the school nurse to spy on Will and Emma, so now the kids have an unlicensed practitioner to help out. It’s okay, though – “it’s a public school.” Her solution for the entire club: Vitamin D! Pseudoephedrine. Suddenly the kids are on top of school and enthusiastic about their extracurriculars. Finn even wants to build...
...gave two examples. The first was digging a well: "How could you do anything wrong by digging a well to give people clean water?" Well, you could create new enemies by where you dug the well and who controlled it. You could lose a village by trying to help it. And then there was the matter of what he called COIN mathematics. If there are 10 Taliban and you kill two, how many do you have left? Eight, perhaps. Or there might be two, because six of the remaining eight decide it's just not worth fighting anymore...