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...Administrative consolidations could offset such severe cuts to House life, which are worrisome and misguided and will cause major problems for both the House staff and students. This is not to say that the specific proposals above are entirely unjustifiable—simply that the community spirit and nurturing environment created by House life, should not be lost to budget cuts—especially if these cuts are meant to spare the bureaucratic central administration’s jobs and salaries...
...strong one. A 22-year study led by David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agriculture at Cornell University, that was published in 2005, found that organic farms produced just as much corn and soybeans as conventional farms. While they required more labor, the cost was more than offset by savings in commercial nitrogen, insecticides and herbicides. In Africa, where labor is cheap and capital scarce, the benefits would be magnified. According to Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva, past green revolutions boosted production of wheat and rice at the expense of other food. Using land for cash crops, she argues, actually...
...seem godlike and infantile at the same time. Patricia's major vice was lying: at dinner with a Kennedy, she loudly claimed to have been a juror at the trial of Michael Skakel. (She was not.) William's towering professional achievements and his genuine affection for his son were offset by impatience, impulsiveness, arrogance, gluttony and criminal thoughtlessness. He walked out of Christopher's Yale graduation because he was bored. He blew off his sister's funeral to accept an award...
Other College student-run newspapers, magazines, and literary journals are similarly feeling the effects of the financial crisis and are adopting new business models to offset the burden of the recession...
...Harvard Crimson has also seen a significant decline in advertising revenue, according to President Maxwell L. Child '10, though he adds that this has been offset somewhat by substantial growth in their business printing other publications—both from Harvard and from elsewhere in the area...