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Under El-Erian, Harvard sought to rebuild its depleted internal investment company instead of outsourcing endowment management to other firms, as other peer institutions—including Yale—have done...
Under El-Erian, Harvard sought to rebuild its depleted internal investment company instead of outsourcing endowment management to other firms, as other peer institutions—including Yale—had done...
...team from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is currently collaborating on an electronic marketplace for file-sharers that would increase the efficiency of peer-to-peer networks by providing individuals incentives to contribute to the system. Made available for free download on Aug. 29, the most recent version of the video-sharing software—known simply as “Tribler”—appears to be gaining something of a foothold. Ten thousand downloads were recorded in the first week alone, according to Sven Seuken, a second-year graduate student in computer...
...easy, but I can understand it. I mean, you saw a bit of it in Platoon. Not on this scale. But that's part of what the movie shows, visualizes, dramatizes - the peer pressure, the tension. [My Lai] happened. It's a fact. It's history. I'm not seeking to denigrate the average soldier. There was a breakdown in that division and there was a breakdown from the top. And I think it had a lot to do with the war policy, which was basically body counts, kill ratios, search and destroy, free-fire zones - these concepts, when they...
...More specifically, these plans aim to achieve near-universality with a couple of incentives. One is a general ethic of "volunteerism," enforced by peer pressure, corporate public service advertising campaigns, earnest reports from blue-ribbon commissions, speeches from politicians, covers of newsmagazines, goody-goody student-council types who infect every college campus, Oprah, Larry King, and so on. America is very good at marshalling all the forces of bullshit in our society toward a noble end, like stopping cruelty to animals or hounding sexual predators. Pressuring young people to "serve" for a year or two is a perfect subject...