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When a successful class is defined by acquiring the minimum amount of necessary information in the minimum amount of time, then something is off. Lectures should be interesting, not just useful for the midterm, and when we budget our class time we give up on this basic intellectual ideal. The nuances that get cut with an economic approach to class time are what make the Harvard academic experience more than four years of test prep. When we drop them, we drop learning for its own sake, that clichéed goal that we laud but clearly do not internalize...
While many domestic manufacturers increasingly rely on undocumented workers who earn minimum wage and receive no benefits, Patrick credits his company's environmentally friendly business practices, above-average pay and good employee benefits for making the firm more, not less, competitive. And he lays most of the blame for the decimated manufacturing industry on an uneven playing field with China. "The [previous] Administration refused to make China play by the rules," he says. "If China stops the illegal subsidies they're giving their industries and does something to offset the currency manipulation, we're good...
...president David M. Sengeh ’10. “We want to give back and be a part of community service.” The team organized “Kick out Malaria Cup,” sponsored by the Swiss Consulate of Boston and Global Minimum, an international student organization co-founded by Sengeh that operates a malaria project with Sierra Leone by distributing mosquito nets to households. “Once we had some guys on our team who wanted to go to Sierra Leone to work on the malaria eradication program, we thought...
...policy guarantees that each class will contain a handful of summas—a departure from previous policy in which the Law school only awarded its highest honor to students meeting the astronomical benchmark of a 7.2 minimum GPA. Because the benchmark was absolute, the Law School had routinely graduated consecutive classes without awarding a single student the summa cum laude...
...Three key provisions of the controversial Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of this year, dealing with the government's ability to monitor the movements of so-called "lone wolves" (suspects who are not tied to a particular organization), handle roving wiretaps and obtain records with minimum court supervision. Congressional Democrats are also likely to push for a review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's use of so-called "national security letters," which allow the bureau to get information from private organizations without court supervision. And there is mounting concern about the National Security Agency...