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...have not found one person who likes automated customer service. It's sad to see human interaction being replaced by computerized interaction. Computers cannot solve a problem, smile or tell you to have a nice day. I'm curious to know where the saved dollars are going: Are they lowering prices for the customers, or are they padding CEOs' retirement funds? Betty Kroupa, East Troy, Wisconsin...
...Sanjayan is worried that the conservation movement to which he has dedicated his life may be overlooking another kind of diversity: racial diversity. An American of South Asian descent (like many people from his native Sri Lanka, he generally uses one name), Sanjayan often finds himself as the only person of color at environmental meetings, in the classroom, even out in the field. Conservation in the U.S. - and the environmental movement more generally - tends to be very white and relatively well off, from the leadership down to the foot soldiers. "Right now conservation groups do miserably (in diversity)," says Sanjayan...
Isaac J. Meyers, the Harvard teaching fellow who died on Monday, was the kind of person anyone could talk to. “Whenever I was very blue—whether I just didn’t feel well or something went wrong at work or I just had a break-up—he was always there,” said Zoe Teegarden, a Harvard Hillel community member who said she was a close friend of Meyers. “Present. He was always present—that’s the perfect word to describe Isaac. He didn?...
...might take time to consider who around us needs cheerleaders and who would benefit from the support of their peers. I don’t think you need a class ring to show your Harvard pride, but I hope we’ve all met at least one person like Eve Carson who makes us proud to be here. Kristina M. Moore ’08, the former president of The Crimson, is a history and literature concentrator in Dunster House...
...books, Obama says he might not have become a Christian - his mother was a skeptical secularist and his absent father an atheist - if not for the special character of the black church. "Out of necessity, the black church had to minister to the whole person. Out of necessity, the black church rarely had the luxury of separating individual salvation from collective salvation," he writes in The Audacity of Hope. It also matched his intellectual curiosity. "Perhaps it was out of this ... grounding of faith in struggle that the historically black church offered me a second insight: that faith doesn...