Word: interested
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...That same year, Falcone joined the securities firm Kidder, Peabody & Co. in the risky business of handling high-interest junk bonds...
...difficulties of central computing began to drive students to the convenience of owning their own machines. Eventually, a growing interest in personal computing led to the formation of the Harvard Computer Society. According to current president Josh. A. Kroll ’09, the club was formed in 1983 as a response to student demand. “One of the club’s early duties was as a collective for purchasing computer hardware at a discount,” Kroll wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson...
...meaningful” life, in Faust’s context, naturally is used in a relatively restricted sense. Tellingly, she contrasted the toilsome life of the financier with the apparently richer and more rewarding lives of the actor, artist, public servant, and journalist. Harvard’s abundant extracurricular interest in those putatively more meaningful pursuits may justify Faust’s presumption that, were money not an obstacle, students would prefer them to the arduous, although handsomely remunerated, tasks of Wall Street...
Much of the year in education was centered on President Barack Obama’s agenda for higher and lower education. Any presidential turnover brings a host of fresh policies, but Obama’s were of special interest because of the high quality of governance promised by his administration. We supported most of his proposals, but noted the omission of several key reforms in higher education. We also expressed concern at the federal government’s inadequate response to the economic crisis’ effects on the Boston school system. Closer to campus, we lamented the continuing distortion...
...into hunger, on top of the 850 million others–mostly in rural South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa–who were already suffering from chronic malnutrition before prices went up. Yet none of the invited speakers at Harvard’s session on food had much interest in this larger problem, or any academic standing to address it. One was a celebrity restaurant owner from San Francisco, the second led an organization called Slow Food USA, and the third was a noted playwright and actress from New York. Apparently Harvard had found no reason to seek...