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...guide program, expected to be up and running in the fall of 2007. While Harvard may not have facilitated a connection between its undergraduates and its museums, many other schools already have “docent programs” at their art museums. Now there seems to be an impetus for change. Starting on Nov. 2, OUR HUAM will host three “Nights” at the Harvard University Art Museums. Specifically, these will be nights when the museums stay open late for students, and ply visitors with free food, entertainers, and student gallery talks. The first such...
Even if the impetus for eliminating tolls was intended to be somehow progressive by helping low-wage commuters, toll prices have already been built into housing prices and wages, so it’s clear that this matter did not warrant such extreme action. In a choice to essentially grant a subsidy to either motorists or subway passengers, the state of Massachusetts has chosen the former, and in so doing, demonstrated its backwards priorities...
...North Korean incident impetus to what appears to be a determined push by Iran to acquire the capability to produce its own nuclear bomb. Tehran insists it is interested only in a civilian nuclear program for energy purposes. The main outside players--the U.S., the European Union, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)--are increasingly skeptical about those claims but thus far have been powerless to do much about it. Western intelligence agencies assume Iran could become the next nuclear power if it proceeds undeterred with its clandestine program. Like North Korea, Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation...
Memories of the incident—and of the victim, Galo Garcia III ’05—have faded, but those students and observers close to the trial wonder how a case with such impetus fizzled so quickly...
...social networks. In his main works, including his 2000 book “Bowling Alone,” Putnam argues that social cohesiveness is on the decline in America. Putnam, who will assume part-time teaching duties as a visiting professor at the University of Manchester, said that one impetus for his project was rising concern in Britain that the country is experiencing a similar phenomenon. “Several members of the British cabinet—I don’t want to name names, but these are people named as Blair’s possible successors?...