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...jubilation was mixed with a palpable sense of apprehension coaxed out of hibernation by the unseasonable heat. To what did we, the warm, owe our good fortune? Was this day the product...
Every university establishes its own policies on how to handle new research innovations, but they all have the moral responsibility to adopt policies that will promote access to the fruits of their research in the developing world. Universities are also major recipients of public funding, and as such, they owe a return on investment to their primary benefactors. Given their vast public support, why should universities continue to pursue profit-driven policies that impede access to medicines for the poor? Harvard, as the single most powerful academic institution in the world, has an opportunity to take a stand and lead...
...Gates stressed he would be his own man at Defense: he didn't seek out the Pentagon job, Gates told the senators, and he isn't returning to Washington now just to "be a bump on a log." "I don't owe anybody anything," he declared. Already, Gates seems to be distancing himself from the White House contention that Iraq was the central front in the war on terror. Iraq is "an important front," Gates conceded, but not the only one; the U.S. faces a "dispersed threat" from other parts of the world...
...because my mother’s students are from decidedly unprivileged economic backgrounds—many of their parents owe a significant amount of money to the people that “helped” them get out of rural China—Ivy League schools are absolutely out of the question. Instead many get scholarships to local schools such as Temple or Drexel. Yet it strikes me as profoundly unfair that these students, or perhaps more realistically their children, could be deemed by some admissions officer to be an “over-represented” minority, and thus...
...Remembering what a jerk I was to my mother for parts of my life, remembering why I was right to be and realizing, after doing the emotional math, I owe her more gratitude than I ever expressed and more sympathy than I ever demonstrated...