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Secretly or openly, many Harvard students harbor aspirations to be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. This behavior manifests itself in the skyrocketing number of student organizations and enterprises. There are clubs devoted to starting other clubs and businesses devoted to founding other businesses. Overall, despite the shrinking student funding resources and questions about genuine motives, this entrepreneurial bent is beneficial to the Harvard community. Students are better able to pursue their interests because of increasingly specialized organizations that bring in speakers and provide opportunities that would otherwise be absent. The entrepreneurs themselves also acquire valuable skills...
...mantle of responsibility. According to Tajzadeh, the pressure on him, "combined with the terrible situation of the country," has made Khatami feel a social obligation to run against Ahmadinejad. A victory by the reformist leader who promoted domestic liberalization and accommodation with the West on the international front would mark a profound political shift from Ahmadinejad, whose foreign policy has been based on an uncompromising defiance. But victory is far from certain, and that may be one reason Khatami has agreed...
...tail end of a brutal month of layoffs. This January's tally of announced cutbacks more than tripled that from the same month last year, according to worker-placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. More than 240,000 positions were slated for elimination, a figure approaching the high-water mark of the last recession, 248,000 in January 2002. (See pictures of the recession...
...before making its decision. It is a city’s obligation to protect and assist its residents in a time of emergency, and blocking a possible rescue due to unfounded fears of the government being able to view a public street shows little perspective. Eight cameras will not mark the end of our First Amendment rights. Hopefully Cambridge residents will not have to wait for an accident to ensue for us to learn this...
...path studded with political mines. Although partnerships between faith-based organizations and government have existed for decades and were reinvigorated during the Clinton Administration, the issue became a partisan football during Bush's time in office. Even some of the faith-based initiative's earliest supporters - including Republican Congressman Mark Souder of Indiana and former office director John DiIulio - strongly criticized the way the Bush White House handled the effort and cut funds for social services. "The Bush Administration pushed hard on the things that created the most controversy and made it look more controversial than it is," says Melissa...