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...circumstances in which this decision was made, it may deter many students from applying to transfer to Harvard when the transfer program is reinstated. The lack of consideration and fair treatment of transfer applicants will echo for years to come. Also, eliminating transfer classes for two years will hurt future accepted transfer students. Currently, new transfers are oriented by the “Transfer Link” program, which is run by other transfers. By eliminating all transfers for two years, this community’s existence is at risk, and new transfers will likely enter Harvard unguided by their...
Orthopedists know about fixing bones, but there is no operation to fix fractured trust. We take medical lies personally. They are, like all lies, offensive, even poisonous, to something deep within. It's surely not a physical poison; while our brains can be hurt by chemicals, our minds are only made of (true) ideas. Lies (untrue ideas) can rot the substance of a mind. Insofar as human life is different from the life of a mindless thing, like a tree, lies - even little lies about new pills and braces - are things that kill us. That's why they...
...video hit the Internet in early March and was met with widespread media attention ("Britain's first safe text street has been created complete with padded lampposts to protect millions of mobile phone users from getting hurt in street accidents while walking and texting," the London Daily Mail proclaimed) along with much twittering in the blogosphere about the possible expansion of the Brick Lane pilot project. But it turned out that the lamppost-wrapping scheme was just a clever public-relations ploy mounted by 118118, a British directory assistance company, and Living Streets, a well-known charity dedicated to making...
...love it, he couldn't have afforded the lavish new house he built in suburban Atlanta. You could also ask if Perry is mocking the folks he hopes to uplift. But his form of comic melodrama depends on creating emotional extremes, acute cartoons of recognizable behavior, people who hurt and get hurt. Public humiliation is the penance his stage characters must endure before they are absolved in a final embrace and bring the curtain down with a full-throated gospel song...
There are more superrich than there are superyachts to go around. Damn. "Production capabilities are running behind demand," says Joel Plasco, CEO of Collins Stewart, the private banking group that sponsors the London Boat Show. But scarcity doesn't hurt this industry. The small number of yachts it builds makes it less vulnerable to economic upheaval: manufacturers need only rely on a handful of customers. "It's more difficult for luxury-goods makers who have to sell hundreds of thousands of items," Cannatelli says...