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...Law” and “Sex and the City,” award-winning actor, producer, director, and humanitarian Blair Underwood spent last week roaming campus as the Office for the Arts’ Artist in Residence, co-sponsored by the Harvard Foundation. And though he may have played a hotshot lawyer on “L.A. Law,” this time it was FM’s turn to cross-examine. Underwood comes clean about breaking into the industry, raising kids in Hollywood, the trials and tribulations of being one of People Magazine?...
What matters now is what Harvard will do both with what it already owns in Allston and Brighton and with the eight-acre site of the Charlesview Apartments that Harvard may soon acquire...
While these plans had their supporters and detractors, little can be accomplished by dwelling on what they envisioned for the distant future and may never accomplish. Instead of debating what might have been, Harvard has an opportunity—and perhaps an obligation to itself and its neighbors—to chart a new and bold course for its future in Allston and Brighton. “Bold” may not be a favored word in the Harvard lexicon these days, but there is an important difference between being bold and being reckless. Timidity and fear create stasis...
Unleashing Harvard’s ingenuity is possible whether its endowment is $25 billion or $35 billion. Banks may be hesitant to lend, but the obstacle today is not a lack of financing—it is Harvard’s lack of will. Jump-starting activity on Harvard’s vacant and under-utilized property in Allston and Brighton doesn’t require a delegation visiting for several days like the one that President Faust just led to South Africa in November. With Harvard’s local Allston/Brighton opportunity, a combination of Rappaport Institute conferences, seed...
...This will provide another avenue of funding and will bring more people and other institutions into the field,” Colen said. “That will be encouraging to some of the best young scientists who may have thought it was too risky to go into stem cell work...