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...presence on campus. In 2007 alone, the Harvard Culinary Society, Real Food Harvard College, and the Office of Career Services’ panel for careers related to Food and Drink were created.But is this extracurricular and professional recognition of food really enough to usher the culinary arts into the mainstream on campus? The Culinary Society is currently grappling with a lack of facilities as well as the demands of being a resource for all things food-related, and the Office of Career Services still faces the perennial problem of persuading Harvard students to consider non-traditional career paths. In order...
Iskenderian: There is evidence that microfinance is resilient to global market movements, compared to traditional lending, as it falls outside of the mainstream economy. And there does still seem to be equity available for microfinance; recently, for example, a couple of large private equity deals were completed in India. Repayment rates remain very high, 97% or 98% in many places. That results from good, old-fashioned credit methodology - you know a household's capacity to repay. That's the kind of old-fashioned banking that some people feel was absent in this latest round of banking disasters. At the same...
...Brook’s House Association, he has been going to the facility once a week for two years. The Prison Education Committee, one of the few PBHA tutoring programs that focuses on assisting adults, gives its volunteers unique access to a community that is both isolated from mainstream society and in desperate need of aid. “This segment of the population, I think, is very much feared, ignored, [and] neglected,” says Rachel M. Singh ’10, the co-director of Suffolk County House of Correction Tutoring Program. The Suffolk tutoring program, which...
...Islam is not a wholly extremist religion, nor is any religion free of extremists who commit atrocities in the name of faith. American Klan members committed crimes against blacks in the supposed name of Christianity. Harvard is filled with Muslim students with mainstream politics. Yet outside of well-educated communities like ours, this is not the case. Islam has come to possess more extremist members than any other modern religion...
...rattling off her supposed crimes against Islam and declaring that it was she who was responsible for Van Gogh’s death. This is only one example of the culture that is arising at Harvard and nearly everywhere in which Islam—even aspects of mainstream Islam—gives us reason to be fearful...