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...outsiders. Most of us are personally unaffected by the suffering we describe in our discussions of welfare, public housing and the unemployed, and yet we are still moved to compassion, reflection and sometimes action. If diversity is valuable because it expands our understanding of ourselves and the world we inhabit, then students from low-income backgrounds have as much to offer Harvard as other minority groups. Although the admissions office insists that less-affluent students are vigorously recruited, evidence on the grounds suggests that we could do much better...
...result, only the four groups that currently inhabit the building—the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the Hasty Pudding Social Club, the Krokodiloes and the Radcliffe Pitches—will use the building after the renovations are completed...
...this issue, we focus on paths toward a future world that all of us--corporate chiefs, subsistence farmers, environmental activists--would like to inhabit. Among the strategies: a new Industrial Revolution based on much more than just raw output, high-tech buildings that are environmentally savvy, incentives to speed the switch to clean energy sources, fast and safe cars that don't pollute and innovative programs to keep the sprawling global village from swallowing our precious wilderness. "So much environmental reporting emphasizes only the problems," says Alexander. "We wanted to focus on the solutions...
...bulls in Pamplona, but the new breed of travel books gives you the oxymoronic pleasure of being both over there and back here at the same time. As Alain de Botton puts it in The Art of Travel (Pantheon; 272 pages), "We may best be able to inhabit a place when we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there." As travel books go, The Art of Travel is on the unconventional side. It isn't about traveling anywhere in particular; it's an extended philosophical riff on the act of traveling itself. De Botton...
...played for free. "Obviously it's not ideal," Summerbee told the Guardian. "But I'd rather be playing football for nothing than sitting on my backside every Saturday afternoon." How perfectly McKinlay and Summerbee sum up the current hand-to-mouth plight of the Football League. Its 72 clubs inhabit the three tiers of competition beneath the country's Premiership and are still reeling financially after the League's three-year, $448 million deal with failed broadcaster ITV Digital collapsed last March. (Financial hiccups caused by shrinking revenues are familiar across European soccer these days: earlier this month, for example...