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...those services, and we see newspapers really getting squeezed. Separately, adult Web sites manage to sell subscriptions –– even though, by some standards, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times might be more important or more useful. That was the impetus for this project –– the question of whether we could learn anything for the future of mainstream media by looking at the present of adult media. 2. FM: What about the porn industry is interesting to an economist?BGE: This is an industry that consistently manages...
...expedite this process has come from U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, who has requested that Pfizer—one of the leading pharmaceutical companies—disclose its ties to HMS. We are pleased to see that Pfizer has agreed to this request, but the impetus for funding transparency must come from the Harvard Medical School itself for credibility upon which medical education depends to be reestablished...
...became a vehicle for instigating turf wars and peddling Chicken McNuggets, hip-hop existed as a rich fusion of four elements—DJing, breakdancing, rapping, and graffiting. These elements collectively comprised an alternative form of entertainment and self-expression for inner-city youth, while creating a burgeoning impetus for social change. At the center of this cultural maelstrom was Grandmaster Flash, né Joseph Saddler, who, along with fellow DJs Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaata, formed a veritable holy trinity of hip-hop. In the 30 years since Saddler’s heydey, however, the genre?...
...does not mean you have “made it,” and this thought pattern will only bring you further from ever actually making it. Those who already buy into the seemingly kind words of their professors or the visitors who envy them are smothering the very impetus that got them to Harvard in the first place. During the four-year period students are here, they should work to be as humble and willing to gain academically from others as possible...
...libraries—such as the law, business and medical school libraries—are autonomous entities, other services, such as the Office of Information Services are centralized. Though the system’s organizational structure has been a concern before, the economic crisis has provided the impetus for library officials to rethink ways of increasing efficiency to meet budgetary constraints. Still, those involved with the project do not see it as a cost-cutting exercise. “The purpose as I understand it is to make a great library greater, to turn the crisis into an opportunity...