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...several years, Sweden succeeded in getting its economy back on course. Growth has been as robust as in any country in western Europe in recent years and its banks have helped finance the economic boom in the Baltics and points east. Whether its approach could work in the far larger and more complicated U.S. market isn't clear. Certainly the captains of Wall Street would bray over the mere hint of nationalization. But with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, it might be worth, at the very least, a hard look...
...What worries us neighbors, though, is that the terms Harvard negotiated with Charlesview’s board do not allow this relocation to work properly for our community and the residents of Charlesview. The 6.5 acres Harvard made available from its much larger holdings along Western Ave. (well outside of the campus expansion) are inadequate, and forced the developer to propose an economically segregated plan, with low-income tenants clustered on one side of Western Ave., while luxury condos rise to ten stories above the river on the other side. This division by income, a model long abandoned by policy...
...elsewhere. By turning its back on the Charlesview project it has privately engineered, Harvard risks another iteration of that sad pattern. We ask President Faust and all our Harvard neighbors not to let this happen. Let’s reopen the conversation on Charlesview, and this time take a larger view of how this relocation could benefit us all. Let’s work together to design a new community we can all be proud...
Many elite athletes have snubbed Harvard in the past, and many more will do so in the future. Still, all of these stories have some place in Harvard’s larger history. In one sense, they acknowledge an inherent limitation of Harvard athletics. We are stuck at the threshold of being a major athletic program—good enough to garner interest, but not to be a main attraction...
...Tong said he hopes to attract international attention to the impending onslaught of what he called “environmental refugees,” not only for the sake of his own people, but also because he views Kiribati’s situation as a precursor to the larger problems to come...