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...concentrators said they are sad to see the general exams go. “I’m conflicted about getting rid of generals,” said Koven-Matasy, who has been studying Latin for nearly a decade. “I’m attached to the idea of a very high standard expected of Harvard students, and I like the idea that we have a test.”Scott J. DiGiulio ’09 said that the generals improve the concentration’s social life. “It helps to create a kind...
...aware that the problems we’re discussing are far more important and lasting than just here in the United States.” Going beyond quantitative economic analysis, Friedman discussed the ethical implications behind deciding between firing foreign or domestic workers. “I thought his idea of looking at economics through moral consequences would appeal to a lot of students” said Gabrielle M. Domb ’11, who helped coordinate the launch party. The international publication’s Winter 2009 issue, titled “Rethinking Finance Beyond the Crisis...
...National Science Foundation, this award honors “young professionals who have each have achieved great things.” The award will provide Charbonneau with $500,000 over a three-year period. According to Charbonneau, most traditional research grants need to be approved and often high- risk ideas are not considered, but this award does not have these types of restrictions. He described this kind of gift as one that will give him the opportunity “to do something that’s a little...
...philosophy, most notably espoused by Harvard Professor Doris Sommer, that every person has the power to change the culture in which he lives. It is embodied in Bogota’s successful plan of rehabilitating respect for its law by replacing traffic cops with mimes. It is the motivating idea behind giving photographic cameras to the poverty-stricken children in the bombed-out Gaza Strip and in Rio de Jainero’s slums. It is the force behind the writing workshops for the homeless that take place here in Cambridge itself. Cultural agency posits that by having the opportunity...
...affordable. The other, advocated by Republicans (including Senator John McCain in the recent presidential campaign), would take away some of the tax advantages that come with getting coverage at work and thereby put many Americans who are now covered by their employers into the marketplace on their own. The idea is that they would be the ones best equipped to decide which plan suits their individual needs...