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...enforce it," Weiler explains, because "Bonds is in his last year, and his income potential in terms of the fans he can draw" is of enormous benefit to the Giants. At least until he breaks the home run record, at which point it could be bye-bye Barry. No matter what the Giants do, though, Bonds cannot possibly stop the players' association from challenging it, so that part of the contract is surely unenforceable...
...none of them. My favorite moment came when Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute began pacing behind the podium, pulling his chin as he realized that his "let the market decide" rhetoric wasn't going over very well against former CIA Director Jim Woolsey's argument that, as a matter of national security, the U.S. government should support hybrid technology and alternative fuels. Taylor actually proposed that the poverty and dissatisfaction such a policy might cause in places like Saudi Arabia might create more terrorists...
...students,” Basin said. Kagan—who made improving student life a top priority when she became dean in 2003—announced that she would continue to work to remedy the problem. “I can promise to treat this matter as a key priority and to ensure that our staff turns over every rock and explores every avenue to make grade-viewing online work appropriately,” she wrote. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...quality has often drawn fire from students, the task force’s work represents a remarkably intense piece of internal criticism from a group of senior professors.The report paints a sobering picture of Harvard’s current teaching culture, in which effective classroom guidance is considered a matter of “individual talent, choice, or valor,” not something FAS sufficiently acknowledges or rewards.“There are a lot of people who care intensely about teaching, but a lot of those same people think the institution doesn’t care...
...Harvard museums; and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Christina B. Rosenberger of Havard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art. The analysis of pigments and binding media was conducted largely at the Straus Center. Alex Matter—the son of photographer Herbert Matter and painter Mercedes Matter—first reported discovering the paintings in 2002. He has said that he found them in his deceased father’s Long Island storage facility, wrapped in brown paper and labeled as “32 Jackson experimental works.” The Harvard study, conducted...