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...larger issue of the University’s unwillingness to lower textbook costs. Professors should take the trouble to put ISBN numbers on syllabi, making the Coop copiers’ “illegal” activities redundant. In addition, the administration’s reluctance to lend a hand to Crimsonreading.org must stop. The Coop exists in order to benefit the Harvard community, and students are only harmed when the administration puts the financial success of the Coop over low textbook prices.When Nicholas J. Castine ’09 came up with an innovative solution to Harvard?...
...Carterish echoes come with two potential dangers. The first is that running as the embodiment of hope can lend itself to a certain self-righteousness-what critics have already started to call ?litism. The second danger is that the public will come to see Obama as naive about America's enemies abroad, as it eventually concluded Carter was. Ever since Obama said he was willing to negotiate with those enemies directly and "without precondition," Republicans have been trying to tag him as the son of the Georgia governor...
...years, helping to push the rate at which U.K. house prices rose over the past decade far higher than economic drivers like income growth and low interest rates could justify. Now banks are throttling back. They have slashed the range of available mortgages and cut the amount they'll lend relative to the value of a property; no more can U.K. customers borrow more than a home is worth, as many had done...
...influence over the junta to get them to open up and then supply support to the Thai and Indonesian militaries to carry out relief missions. "We can pay for it - we can provide repair parts to the Indonesians so they can get their Air Force up. We can lend the them two C-130s and let them paint the Indonesian flag on them," Nash says. "We have to get the stuff to people who can deliver it and who the Burmese government will accept, even if takes an extra day or two and even if it's not as efficient...
...them did know Obama's black inner circle, however. Nesbitt was close to Penny Pritzker of the Hyatt hotel clan, who had helped finance Nesbitt's airport-parking company. Riding home together from a board meeting in 2002, Nesbitt mentioned Obama's Senate plans and asked her to lend a hand. She was initially skeptical--"Didn't he just lose a congressional race to Bobby Rush?" she asked--but agreed to hear Obama out. She invited Obama to her Michigan summer home for a weekend. He won her over, landing on his finance committee a Pritzker whose Rolodex contained...