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Located in a gray house down Linden Street, the Bureau of Study Council (BSC) straddles two purposes: to help students adjust to college work and to counsel students adjusting to college life. Given its dual mission, programs through the BSC can seem like a combination of Positive Psych section and a “How to Live Your Best Life” Oprah segment. But for students looking for understanding adults and a mix of undergraduates and grad students to talk to, the BSC can feel homey. Students needing a tutor can get one through the BSC, but with...
...next two days, his company received half a million complaints about the new features. He quickly backtracked, issuing a mass apology and promising to implement better privacy controls. Facebook “really messed this one up,” he wrote, when it ignored the part of their mission, “helping people share information with the people they want to share it with...
...more demanding plane, designed to weed out poor pilots. But after the three fatal crashes, the service grounded the planes in 1997. "The T-41 is your grandmother's airplane," Merrill McPeak, the general running the Air Force when the program began, told TIME several months later. "Our mission is to train warrior-pilots, not dentists to fly their families to Acapulco." But the Air Force disagreed, and ultimately ended the more demanding flight-training program that General McPeak had championed. The service also found that making the planes airworthy for subsequent sale was prohibitive (they have had no maintenance...
...Bitterly at odds with Washington, Assad's regime has sometimes allowed militants to get too close to the U.S. embassy. During an anti-American demonstration in 2000, security forces looked the other way as a mob stormed the grounds and ransacked the American mission. Amid last winter's protests over Danish cartoons viewed as mocking the Prophet Mohammed, demonstrators burned the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus...
...academic institution, Harvard ought to keep its place at the forefront of intellectual discourse by bringing to Cambridge speakers who revile us, even as they challenge us. The University lived up to this part of this mission when, in 1959, it invited Fidel Castro, then newly installed as Cuba’s premier, to speak to a crowd of 6,000 at the Dillon Field House. It did so again by bringing Mohammed Khatami here yesterday...