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...through its investors, it should do so ... Equally, there is some transfer of learning back from the community into the company, so that it understands more about the issues. The real question is, who adds value most? Also, charities today can become commerce tomorrow. A Vodacom project to provide micro-financing to local entrepreneurs bringing mobile communications to remote areas of South Africa is on the cusp of becoming a major business...
...provide us with a bold new direction; instead it has left us adrift. This reservation is not, however, unwarranted. General Education remains so underdeveloped that at this point, it would be impossible to guide students into the system. This is hardly surprising to us; the imperative to satisfy each micro-constituency in the Faculty could result in little more than a muddled and insipid rehash of the old Core. The College missed a crucial opportunity to flesh out and develop the General Education curriculum over the past four months, a move that would have benefited the entire student body...
...Mellone defended the work of his group, saying that the science center was just one piece of a puzzle that will take 50 years to complete. But he acknowledged the difficulty of the task at hand. “I think our biggest problem has been looking at a micro in a macro project,” he said. “To try to bring up all the other nuances in a way that makes significant progress as far as planning is way beyond me.” —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached...
...choice to mid-sophomore year, it did not mean to vote itself a 17 percent cut in advising workload. Surely, if a choice has to be made, Faculty should advise sophomores deciding on concentrations rather than freshmen. In designing the student experience, everyone had the best intentions at the micro level. At the macro level…there wasn’t any macro level. In the absence of unifying leadership, an incoherent program evolved...
...first time in recent memory, Harvard again has its own beer—a micro-brewed ale unveiled this year. But beyond that, today’s ceremony is utterly unlike its 17th-century precursor. There will be no debate among members of the Class of 2007. And alumni in the audience certainly won’t be asked for their views...