Word: non
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Poverty and destitution are indeed huge problems. Why take a toothpick to clear them, when what is really required are sledgehammers and bulldozers? The best intentioned "social worker" in a non-governmental organization would be lucky to count even one person he has truly lifted out of poverty. A single industrialist like Henry Ford, by starting the first assembly line and doubling workers' wages to $5 a day, started a trend that empowered millions and created a whole new middle-class in America--even while creating a new customer base to buy his Model T's and amassing a huge...
...Career Forum has become an easy target for students who are eager for more information and support in seeking positions outside of banking and consulting. However, the lack of representation at the fair by non-profit organizations has less to do with callousness on the part of the Office of Career Services (OCS) and everything to do with the structure of the non-profit world...
Negin said the prevalence of non-Harvard people in the vicinity of Cabot House may pose a risk to residents...
...city of Chicago will be successful only if its case reinvigorates the national demand for gun control legislation as the tobacco lawsuits did for non-smoking laws. To win the fight against gun makers and other apparent public threats, regulation must remain a legislative process rather than a judicial one. Alex M. Carter '00 is a history and literature concentrator in Dunster House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
Break the code. Right now, some non-Microsoft programmers say they are disadvantaged in writing applications that work on Windows because they don't have sufficient access to crucial Microsoft codes that mate the applications to the Windows software. As a result, they say, Microsoft has a big edge in selling lucrative word-processing, finance and other software to users of Windows, which runs more than 90% of the world's personal computers. The court could supervise the sharing of Microsoft's codes--known in techspeak as application-program interfaces, or APIs--and thereby ensure a level playing field...