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While cost-cutting measures are certainly necessary given the FAS financial situation, trimming the faculty to decrease costs harms a central mission of the University to maintain the highest standard of education possible. Measures that directly threaten Harvard’s quality of education should be a true last resort...
With the potential to harm Harvard’s academic mission, FAS should not implement this buyout, and if they find it necessary to do so, the hiring freeze should first be lifted. We appreciate the need for cost-cutting measures in these difficult economic times, but the University’s mission is to provide education of the highest caliber. Intentionally decreasing the size of the faculty is inconsistent with that mission and should only be seen as a last resort...
...many faiths. All four members of the panel discussion agreed that religious leaders are uniquely suited to inspire people to protect the environment. But they said that sparking such inspiration is an enormous challenge. “It is difficult to frame in terms of religious tradition or current mission,” said panelist Willis J. Jenkins, assistant professor of social ethics at Yale Divinity School. “Environmental issues have to make theological sense. They have to make a community come alive.” In that vein, each panelist discussed practical ways to describe environmentalism...
...This site offers something different from many past men’s efforts, as it dares to feel at home on the Internet, an arena that is arguably hostile to the site’s mission. Many Web surfers know that they are always just a few clicks away from material that is misogynistic or treats violence against women casually...
...join the Nepal army, but those who don't make the cut will have to be assimilated into other security forces or given other jobs per the terms of the accord. "Some 5,000 have left - they just got tired of waiting," says Kosmos Biswokarma, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Nepal. "The rest are getting impatient. They want decisive action." Prachanda's biggest problem now will be containing this unrest and finding a solution. Until then, "the first great world experiment of the 21st century" - as Prachanda described the Maoists' political ascension in Nepal in November 2006 - may only...