Word: ideas
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...seeking recognition as paid employees, GESO degrades the idea of a university as a community of scholars. As Yale's recent refusal of the $20 million Bass grant shows, unlike most of America the university is not simply in the business of making money. And graduate students are not in the business of making money either. While some may dream of a comfortable tenured position in their future, they should be commended for ignoring the financial lures of law and Wall Street in order to pursue academic knowledge...
Recognizing the importance of privacy concerns, hospitals test all other viruses on an anonymous basis. We fail to see why HIV should be an exception to this rule. Hospitals have already recognized that anonymous testing is a good idea. Most hospitals carry out HIV testing in a procedure that assigns numbers rather than patient names to each test. Cambridge Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Fenway Community Health Center all carry out HIV testing on an anonymous basis...
...think it is a good idea to invite facultyand students," said Natasha Bir '96. "It helps toestablish a well rounded community. You feel thatit is more inclusive...
...tremendous popularity of the book is something Berendt, a former editor of New York magazine and current columnist for Esquire, had not anticipated. A native of Syracuse, New York, he got the idea for his book three years after he took a weekend trip to Savannah in 1982. But the first literary agent to whom he submitted his manuscript turned it down, claiming it was too local and uncommercial. "When I was writing it people asked me if I thought it would be a best seller," says Berendt, "and I said, 'Are you kidding?' I thought it would...
...America evolved from an economy driven by production to one stimulated by consumer spending. The prophet of this change was the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who preached that the way out of the U.S.'s 1937 recession was the triggering of demand, not the revival of investment. This idea was new to the industrial age, which had always followed Say's Law of Markets in asserting that production drove consumption...