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...taxes, he did not adhere to this promise. “He’s a great example of Democratic leadership,” Dewey wrote in an e-mail. Helgen said the award is granted to a rising star in the Democratic Party who has had a significant impact in recent years and is expected to do “great things” in the future. Last year, Alabama Representative Artur Davis ’90 won the award. According to Helgen, Warner’s selection for the “Leadership Award” was influenced...
...forum on “action research” that condoms, often distributed by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for free in India, provide highly-valued lubrication for use on spindles in the sari-making industry. Sukhtankar’s point served to underscore the importance of quantifying the sometimes-uncertain impact that NGOs have on the developing world. The forum, called “How To Turn Economic Research into Social Action in South Asia,” aimed to encourage quantitative research on the effectiveness of socially oriented programs—especially microfinance institutions (MFIs). According to Professor of Economics...
...other people,” he says. “Being in the military teaches you a lot of the skills that you just would not have anticipated being in an institution like Harvard: being on your own, surviving in the jungle.” Myat San emphasizes the impact of the military on his sense of patriotism. “You have to do this in order to earn your citizenship,” he says. He is nonchalant, though, about his mandatory experience. “I think that a lot of people here have something unique...
...been the “worst-case scenario,” she added. Chen and her blockmates have since decided not to link with the other group. But according to Director of Housing Joshua McIntosh, size does not matter. “Bigger, or smaller, blocking groups have no impact on how students are randomly assigned to the houses,” McIntosh wrote in an e-mail.Several freshmen said they were ambivalent about the advantages of neighborhood blocking. “I’m not even getting into linking because blocking is so stressful,” Indira Phukan...
...very discriminatory policy that the state law seeks to eradicate. Rather, we feel that Massachusetts should only confer the license for adoption services to the Church, but divorce public money from the Charities’ activities. While our consideration of this licensing issue has focused around the practical empirical impact on children, Governor Romney, like Archbishop O’Malley, has framed this issue around freedom of religion. Within an hour of the Church’s decision not to renew its contract, he announced his decision to endorse a bill allowing for religious organizations to seek an exception...