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...specifically Venezuela. While she said that all the governments share common objectives of tackling poverty and creating better opportunities for their people, she acknowledged that they have chosen to go about it in very different ways. “People have paid a lot of attention to the Chavez model and due attention has to be given to the Chilean model,” said Soo Min Seo, a first-year masters student in public policy at the Kennedy School. Despite the weighty topics she discussed, Bachelet kept a light-hearted demeanor throughout her speech and made the audience laugh...
...enclave. We are actually calling for considerably expanded affordable housing options, in addition to the market-rate units, so that homeowners and tenants of all income groups can be interspersed. Rather than reproduce the stigmas of an older approach to public housing, this plan can help Harvard create a model urban community in Allston/Brighton, just down the street from its gleaming new campus...
...ineffective teaching methods. In one of the most underperforming school systems in the country, New York City schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein has begun to implement novel changes to help improve student achievement as much and as quickly as possible. Most notably, Klein has incorporated a pay-for-performance model that rewards schools for increased student achievement. While this incentive-based plan represents a step in the right direction, more must be done in the way of individual merit pay for teachers to truly improve teaching in every classroom. Under Klein’s model, rather than appropriate bonus...
...media outlets. Both journalists moderated the opening panel, which featured undergraduates of different faiths. The day’s title, “On Faith at Harvard,” took its name from the blog. “This is a fantastic event that can be a model for something ongoing,” said Matthew P. Cavedon ’11, Interfaith Council dialogue chair. “It was really exciting to hear everyone’s personal journeys as Mormons, Muslims, Jews, and Christians,” said Mihiri U. Tillakaratne...
...chose to be in Diamond because she “wanted to do something fun and cool...something to spice things up...I wanted to graduate with a bang.” Obviously, di Pasquale did too. (Has it worked yet, Matt?) In his interview, the editor-cum-model waxes, “everyone’s a porn star at heart! :) ” Hey, if it works for you, then keep telling yourself that, Matt. But really, what kind of self-respecting “journalist” actually uses smiley faces...