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...burden rests on us, as students, to take advantage of these chances, rather than complain when do not land in our laps as we sit and wait...
...graduate today. On Saturday, I leave for the Dominican Republic—a land of sun and palm trees and baseball and writing...
...their doctorates, each taught at a few different universities before joining Harvard and Berkeley, respectively. But pure research was not the only thing on either of their plates in the early 1990s—each soon took up an important policymaking role, and Shleifer’s would soon land him in hot water...
Harvard's relations with local residents were in the spotlight, with signs of progress and cooperation mixed with discontent and allegations of poor treatment by the University. Today's wrangling over Allston echoes disputes in 1982 over the Medical School's energy plant (MATEP) and the acquisition of land at University Place. The referendum to create a new Undergraduate Council raised perennial questions of effectiveness, independence, and minority representation in student government, as well as a debate over the best way to fund minorities' student groups. After lively debate on both sides, the constitution was eventually approved and is still...
...parked nearby. The arrival of a reporter and a photographer produces a flurry of activity. When a dozen or so protesters make for the gates, the police take their positions for the well-rehearsed daily standoff. Today Corduff and Monaghan challenge them over whether the few yards of land between the gates and the road are private or public property, and whose duty the police are doing. The tone is niggling and hostile, with much finger wagging and each side videoing and snapping the other. A sudden squall brings the rain hammering in horizontally, and eventually the protesters trudge with...