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Amusement and bemusement aside, she loves what she does and sees her job as a constant process of “creative reeducation,” involving “rules of chemistry and discipline and artistry and passion in the most multicultural of environments...
...wage is $6.75 per hours, increase the starting salary of all dining hall workers from $10.85 to the Cambridge “living wage” figure of $11.11. Nor is pledging to protect the job of every single HCL employee. Still, many would argue—not without passion or clarity—that improving labor conditions would be a better way to spend Harvard’s funds than, say, renovating Quincy dining hall or expanding the size of the Faculty...
Whatever your position, though, it is morally untenable to attack Harvard as nothing more than an institution driven by a passion for making money. If that were the case, it seems hard to explain why Harvard would have increased its financial aid payouts by 49 percent in the past six years. It is now time for critics to tone down their passionate rhetoric and focus instead on offering more practical solutions for how best to allocate Harvard’s funds. Continuing to accuse administrators of caring about nothing but the bottom line is not only inaccurate, it is downright...
...librarian, Boorstin tried to make the world’s largest library more attractive to the public. Under his direction, the library installed picnic tables and benches and established a center to encourage reading. He held the post until 1987, when he resigned to focus on his passion: writing about history...
...think that what we are seeing right now is a more passionate Democratic electorate than we have seen in decades,” said Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy Alexander Keyssar of the Kennedy School of Government. “The passion isn’t a pro-Kerry passion, particularly. It’s an anti-Bush passion...