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...challenge facing the Jefferson County school district is to convince the Supreme Court that racial integration not only does no harm but offers concrete benefits that would be lost without the guidelines. To help make this case, 553 social scientists--including professors at Harvard, the University of Hawaii and myriad institutions in between--have submitted a friend- of-the-court brief detailing how racial integration in schools reduces prejudice and prepares students to enter a diverse workforce. More support will come from a study to be released this week showing that blacks and Latinos perform better academically in integrated schools...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) met last night to launch its Hidden Cost Campaign, aiming to reduce the myriad small fees that face Harvard students and eliminate the new tax on gifts to student groups. Though these daily costs eat into the income of every undergraduate, they are particularly hard to shoulder for low-income students, according to UC President John C. Haddock ’07. “The financial aid packages and the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative are incredible steps, but they’ll never be able to address a lot of the unexpected costs...
Companies can use the software to measure the risks and rewards of moving into new markets and products or making capital investments. Myriad data and assumptions can be plugged in: competing technologies, changes in government regulations, what rivals may do. The one constant most businesses can count on is churn. "If you know something to be true, it's already history," Williams says. Prediction software, he argues, makes it easier for executives to "accept uncertainty and move...
...itself, they seem to be calling on some long-lost rhythmic truth. Sounding older, deeper, and more organic than others who’ve borrowed so heavily from the blues, they combine formidable talent with a soulfulness that many find lacking in groups like Led Zeppelin. Auerbach coaxed his myriad licks and blues scales out of the same Gibson SG all night, fingering and manning the whammy bar with such dexterity that his hands seemed not to match up with the sounds he was producing. Carney pounded himself into exhaustion by show’s end, which might explain...
...their self-centeredness and neuroses—that such behavior never undermines the verisimilitude of the drama. Part of Rhimes’ trouble is that she has given her writers an unnecessarily difficult task by bringing in too many peripheral figures into the center of the sexual stew. The myriad relationships dilutes their individual significance and pushes her characters farther from reality into stereotype.When Callie seeks revenge on the romantically aloof George in Mark’s bed, their spontaneous coupling seems completely out of character because from their late entrances into the show, Rhimes hasn’t explained...