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...despite sustained efforts by students and police, Harvard’s bicycle theft numbers seem unlikely to go down any time soon.“Bicycle theft in the Cambridge area is incredibly high,” says Tim Ledlie ’02, founder of Quad Bikes, a non-profit bike shop. “It is a tough problem to solve.”In the last four years, numbers have been similarly high: 149, 141, 78, and 138 bikes were stolen in the years 2001-2004, respectively.National rankings consistently place Boston/Cambridge in the ten worst cities...
...sources. Nine percent of Harvard’s electricity comes from renewable energy, said Mary H. Smith, manager of energy supply and utility administration at Harvard. In addition to Harvard, the award was given to 28 other organizations by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and the non-profit Center for Resource Solutions. But the chair of the Massachusetts chapter of the Sierra Club, an environmental group, Mary Ann Nelson, said Harvard students could contribute more to the environment. “I would hope that all the students and all the other members of the Harvard community...
...from HBS in 1947 and a doctorate from the Harvard School of Education in 1957. In 1989, the Extension School awarded him the Joann Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award and, in 1994, HBS followed suit, presenting him with a Distinguished Service Award. Raymond was also very involved in non-profit work and led many training courses for an audience ranging from museum directors to police chiefs. Raymond is survived by his wife; a stepson, Geoffrey B. Clark; four brothers, and two grandchildren...
...entrepreneurship. “Many of the leaders on this list are not just successful at what they do, but they also have deep social concern and are seeking social change,” Gergen said. Bill Drayton ’65, who first developed the idea for his non-profit organization Ashoka around a dinner table in Lowell House, is one of the social entrepreneurs named on the list. He stressed the importance of this growing field. “It’s not just you and me, but everyone could be a change-maker...
...hero in Carlos Fuentes’ novel “Christopher Unborn” spins 500-plus pages of giddy prose, interspersed with song lyrics, shape poems, plays, and political ads. Sixteen years after “Christopher”’s first edition in English, the non-profit Dalkey Archive Press gives this loud and incorrigible work by Mexico’s most famous novelist a much-deserved rebirth in American bookstores. In the nine months preceding his birth on Oct. 12, 1992 (the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ arrival), Christopher reconstructs...