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...instead offer its unique contributions to disaster relief. Students, faculty, and staff should be encouraged to lead fundraising drives and donate independently. Harvard medical affiliates and other relevant staff should be dispatched to disaster areas (as they were in the wake of the tsunami and Katrina). And Harvard should lend its resources to displaced members of academia (like Loyola and Tulane students) as well. With these contributions, Harvard is already making a statement, loud and clear, that it is part of the national and the international community. Any extra money on the side will hurt Harvard more than it will...
...Department is working with the many support services that exist at Penn...to lend support to Kyle’s friends and teammates, who are devastated by his untimely passing,” Penn Athletic Director Steve Bilsky said in a statement...
...made a good start in loosening its travel restrictions. Now it must go farther. The College should make information and travel warnings available to students, educate them on the risks of travel, and make them think twice before they travel to dangerous places. But ultimately, the College must lend all reasonable support to its students’ decisions. An exemption system for restricted countries would put the onus on students to prove the safety of their travel plans, allowing the College to prevent downright crazy explorations (say, travel to downtown Grozny) while at the same time adding invaluable flexibility...
Middleman-free microlending has long been associated with developing countries. Why not bring the model online elsewhere, circumventing the traditional banking industry? That's the idea behind zopa.com a Web-based lending and borrowing exchange that connects those who want to lend with creditworthy people looking to borrow. Zopa serves as the platform, like eBay. The borrower simply pays a 1% fee to Zopa up front. Members have to be at least 18, have a credit rating and, for now, live in Britain. Zopa plans to open in the U.S. in 2006 and has had offers to take the service...
Soft jazz notes lend an air of sophistication to the black-and-white scene, while the camera glides politely among the tables of high-society types sipping cocktails (not too quickly) and laughing (not too loudly...