Word: helpfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What about the changes we do make - hybrid cars, solar panels - do they help at all? We are very good at solutions that involve buying things. "Oh, I'll buy a hybrid." "Oh, when I redo my kitchen I'll use bamboo flooring." But when it comes to actually cutting back, to real deprivation and sacrifice, it's like, "No, forget that...
Although the College Events Board and FYSC exist nominally to help the Fun Czar in planning campus-wide events, the Administration empowers the overstretched Czar with real control of all social programming. A case in point: The CEB is not allowed to enter into any contracts surrounding campus events or even have much to do with their scheduling. In years past, they have been told simply that certain events must occur each year, left only to devise the frilly details of the gatherings. The iron fist of social programming is entrusted only to recent Harvard undergraduates, as the administration feels...
...doesn't make sense any more—I'm going to have to sit through class hungry," said Mukudzei T. Borerwe '10, who gave up on the line and left without even entering the food service area. He added a handy metaphor to help out any of us who were a bit confused: "I used to feel like the Concorde, but now I would have to be a freaking military jet with tanks and stuff." (Because...
...federal policy of excluding known lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals from admission to ROTC or of discharging them from service is inconsistent with Harvard’s values as stated in its policy on discrimination,” the handbook states. But Mawn said that changes were needed to help people develop different attitudes on the issue. “People who have no connection to the military have been fed all this anti-military propaganda for years,” he said, adding that today’s media has very few positive things to say about the military...
...Perhaps pressure from the rest of Europe will help. "We haven't heard anything from Brussels yet, but I am sure that the European Commission will express concern in its annual progress report [on Serbia's E.U. membership] in mid-October," Milica Delevic, the head of Serbian Office for European Integration, tells TIME. "Europe expects us not just to pass antidiscrimination laws but also to implement them and to create a political climate where you don't need 10,000 cops to protect a minority...