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...current economic environment. In order to prevent this from happening, Congress needs to extend a loan to these companies. The automakers should certainly be held responsible for their own poor choices. Their focus on the production of SUVs and trucks instead of more fuel-efficient cars has caused major profit losses, as consumers have turned away from these gas-guzzling vehicles. Union support for these strategies—while politically helpful to their constituents in the short term—has also made it difficult for Congress to impose fuel standards on the industry. Wherever the blame lies, however, making...
...shelter for the Harvard Square stop of the Boston Elevated Railway and is on the national register of historic buildings. The structure was restored and reopened as a newsstand 1984 after the Red Line was extended beyond Harvard Square. Because of its special status, any major renovation would be “a state issue,” Healy said at Monday’s meeting. The property will continue to be leased as a newsstand that provides “a diverse array of news material,” Healy said at the meeting. Hudson News could...
History of Art and Architecture professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger suggested that pushing the Allston project back could protect more immediate academic priorities, comparing such a slowdown to “providing major surgery in one area, preventing us from having to bleed the whole body...
Harvard may be used to bucking national trends, but in math and computer science, its relationship to the national gender gap is more complicated.Nationally, the number of incoming female undergraduates choosing computer science as a major declined 70 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. The trend is part of a quarter-century decline in female computer-science majors detailed in a New York Times article on Saturday.At Harvard, the story looks different, but not necessarily any better. Over the past year, female enrollment in Computer Science 50 has jumped 60 percent...
...major problem with the gay rights movement is that it simultaneously champions democratic government and rejects it. The movement views marriage as a civic institution rather than a religious one (this is one distinction between marriages and civil unions), but only so long as government functions from a pro-gay marriage position. Once the cogs of government have turned to an anti-gay marriage slant, gay rights activists cease to be tolerant of the democratic process. Cue the banners decrying opponents as hateful and intolerant. Is this unfortunate divide what activists seek? Certainly that sort of culture of separatist intolerance...