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...time for rejuvenation, it is not an excuse for stagnation. Students are expected to scan the course catalog and plan for their upcoming semester during their time off. So it is shameful to see that the administrators in charge of pushing General Education afforded themselves vacations in lieu of taking even baby steps in the march to implement the new curriculum. Reinvigorating Harvard’s Core will require a Herculean effort, and sloth is not an option. This delay in curricular development has already had consequences for the newest crop of freshmen. When the Class of 2011 arrived...
...lieu of federal policies encouraging massive investment in renewable energy—even an environmentalist like myself can’t dream that optimistically—the best way for colleges such as Harvard to ensure that America does its part to help rather than drastically hurt the global environment in the coming century is to ensure that every time you walk anywhere on campus, you see and appreciate that renewable energy can and does work reliably and unobtrusively. The solar panels on the Cabot Science Library and the planned wind turbines on William James Hall are a miniscule step...
...lieu of the bachelor’s degree he gave up to start his business, Gates will receive an honorary degree from the University during this today’s Commencement ceremony...
Detroit got into this benefits predicament because of a not entirely conscious policy decision by Washington after World War II to encourage corporations to provide health care and pensions (most other affluent countries gave government a bigger role) in lieu of inflationary wage hikes. During the decades-long economic boom that followed, this system worked spectacularly well--especially for employees of Detroit's prodigiously profitable Big Three...
...much more popular in the banlieues than the law-and-order immigration skeptic, Sarkozy, who has an unfortunate—and perhaps calculated—weakness for rhetoric with a racist edge. But Royal seems stuck in an antiquated and romantic socialism that offers minorities politically correct rhetoric in lieu of the prospect of genuine opportunity...