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...South African fellows I've met here are janitors back home, and they said they will return to their positions upon their return. Coming to Harvard is like a temporary break from hell. That is not a commitment on Harvard's part. A commitment means you invest in someone's future, make a difference worth noting. Harvard teases students by allowing them to glimpse freedoms that it is helping to deny them...
...without either a crisis or a dramatic effort to avert one. But Reagan was right in 1981: a society, like an individual family, cannot live beyond its means indefinitely. In fact, if it wants to prosper and grow, it cannot even live at its means. It must save and invest for the future. We have not been doing that, and unless this changes we will suffer for it, even if the suffering takes the form of slow stagnation rather than some bloodcurdling cataclysm...
...stopped. If the CBO's estimate of 2.3% a year is right, we'd be home free if the next President could persuade us simply to hold consumption at its present levels for his first term, using the dividends of economic growth to pay off our debts and invest for an even more prosperous future...
Should clinicians be allowed to participate in the program, since much of the value of their research is derived from the unique illness of the patient? Should pharmeceutical companies be allowed to invest in the plan, since they already have ties to researchers and could use their influence to get a preview of the latest research? Will Harvard's share of the profit be divided equally among research units or go to the most lucrative departments within the Medical School...
Martin said, however, that it would be harder to find investors for a similar FAS program because Med School research has more attractive commercial applications than the often theoretical scientific research done at the graduate and post-graduate level. "If people invest, you want to promise them a volume of discoveries per year...