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...these efforts—efforts which, ultimately, have more value than relief itself. It is true that $25.9 billion could rescue much of Niger from famine. It could buy crates of second line antibiotics to combat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis worldwide. Harvard’s endowment could even de-mine the Korean border eight times over. In doing so, however, Harvard would forfeit the money necessary to cultivate the University’s unique contributions to education and research. The University would merely be accomplishing something that every charity is set up to do at the cost of what only...
...wall in the back, no doubt, but the team is what truly matters to Shields. “I couldn’t get [the record] without the 11 in front of me,” said Shields, “It’s a team record, not mine.” While the senior led the defensive domination of the game, two freshmen broke Harvard out of its recent offensive struggle. Freshman forward Erin Wylie netted two goals, giving her a team-leading five tallies for the season, while freshman forward Zoe Sarnack came off the bench...
...past 2 1/2 years. After the U.S. invasion, he says, he joined some like-minded friends and used his military experience to attack U.S. supply convoys on the roads to Baghdad. But he soon realized it was futile. "The Americans had advanced weapons and helicopters so small groups like mine couldn't hope to make much of an impact," he recalls. Then, two weeks after the fall of Saddam's regime (but before his capture), al-Tamimi says he received word from the man he still calls "al-Rais"--the President. "He sent a messenger to me with a simple...
...careful planning and foresight. In the current discussions over economic diversity, however, my family would be lumped along with families to which forty thousand dollars is a drop in the bucket or a typical deposit into a bank account. The family experiences that people from backgrounds similar to mine bring to Harvard are valuable and worthy, but are also extremely hard to quantify or nail down. All too often in the office of financial aid, students are defined down to a number, their parents’ combined wages, and a place of residence. This is not to castigate Byerly Hall...
Unable to support herself and her children on a meager hairdresser’s salary, Josie begins working at Pearson Taconite, the iron mine of Northern Minnesota. The work is hard, the men are merciless—they call the female employees “cunts”—and the women are expected “to take it like...