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...will only benefit higher education.But HBS’s deal begs a much larger question: With barriers to sharing information vanishing, how much should Harvard open its vast resources to the world? Sharing information is a key step in making higher education more available to the general population, a mission worthy of being pursued by the entire University, not just the Extension School. Harvard students have privileged access to the resources that are limited and that Harvard cannot practically make public, like its faculty, classrooms, and libraries. But making non-sensitive course materials more publicly available will cost little...
...purchase of contemporary art. In recent years its fund for that purpose has hovered at about $1 million annually--chump change in the current market. For Louis Grachos, director of the Albright-Knox, the sale simply allows the museum to focus on its chief purpose. "Our core mission is to collect and to preserve contemporary art," he says. And he insists that in Buffalo, a Rust Belt city of dwindling wealth, there are not enough big-money donors to enlarge the acquisition budget by other means...
...Charles J. Hamilton ’07, president of the Harvard Black Men’s Forum, said that while he has not attended the foundation’s science conferences—Hamilton is a government concentrator—he strongly supports the program’s mission. “If you look at Harvard and you look at the science community, overwhelmingly it’s dominated by white males,” he said. “To have the opportunity to bring in young, black inner-city youth to such a day is absolutely fantastic...
...provincial police headquarters at Gwanda. My escorts accused me of planning to write "negative" stories about Zimbabwe--as if arresting me would dispose me to more positive stories--and carried with them a report from West Nicholson's police chief describing me as a "dedicated journalist on a clandestine mission...
...photographs, emaciated children stare at the camera intensely and what buildings exist are discolored and in disrepair. “We use our photography as a form of resistance,” said Sabreen, 17, one of last night’s speakers and photographers. According to the mission statement posted on its Web site, Picture Balata aims to put “the camera into the hands of children born and raised inside the Israeli occupation of Palestine” so they can “photograph their situation as they live it.” The Balata camp...