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...When charities have to reach the five-percent spending rate, they can just write a check to another group, but we have to plan budgetary cycles over a much longer horizon,” Casey said. “To establish the rules of the road is fine, if there’s abuse. But you don’t always have to legislate...
...spite of the region’s tragic history, there may yet be hope on the horizon. In the past two months Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have committed to a two-state solution where Israel and Palestine could co-exist peacefully. Since then, the pressure to engage in a new peace process has been applied by President Bush during his first visit to Israel as president. While it is all too possible that this latest process will also be unsuccessful, a continual push toward peace is necessary, and a two-state solution...
...fashioned incandescents use only 5 percent (the rest becomes heat), these new bulbs convert over 50 percent of their energy input into light. Other advantages include that they don’t require the toxic chemical mercury and almost never burn out.But perhaps the most exciting breakthrough on the horizon is one being proposed by our engineering friends down Mass. Ave. The Vehicle Design Summit is pooling creative and technological prowess from around the world to build a “hyper-efficient 4-6 passenger vehicle…that will demonstrate a 95 percent reduction in embodied energy...
...range of distant mountains on the left, telephone wires on the right, a barren pocked road disappearing into the horizon: We are “approaching nowhere.” The cover establishes the melancholy mood prevalent in the collection of 20 years of photographer Jeff Brouws’s work.At first glance, “Approaching Nowhere” appeals to the average over-worked Harvard student’s escapist fantasies. Full-page photographs of empty highways ending in mist and deserted rest areas blend in with the barren landscape: you can almost feel the wind whistling...
...this one are at once unacceptable and embarrassing. Advisers cannot effectively counsel undergraduates on their plans of study if concentration requirements are restructured just weeks before the deadline to declare. While some students had heard rumors from their advisers or others that this decision may have been on the horizon, many were caught entirely off guard. The lack of communication between administrators in the economics and psychology departments, advisers, and students demonstrates a systematic failure within the advising system. Nevertheless, we believe administrators in these two departments acted with the best intentions when pressing for this change. Previously, joint concentrators...