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Neither Harvard nor Cambridge should expect to gain from such dysfunctional and hostile exchanges, as the plight of the CGIS tunnel has so clearly demonstrated. Hopefully, however, the frustration over this disagreement, and the recognition that both parties would have benefited from the tunnel’s construction, will give way to a more cooperative spirit between the University and the city in the future. As the mutual loss of the tunnel has so clearly demonstrated, we are in this together...
Luckily, rich people have come to the plight of writers. Writers’ colonies have sprouted up around the country, where writers can come to live and work in a calm environment in Bumtruck, USA. The New York City Public Library helps urbanite procrastinators detach from their e-mail through three programs that allow writers to work in special rooms within the library, two of which carry sizeable stipends. (And you thought all those corridors corded off from the public were holding books, not procrastinators...
...Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Title IX of 1972, or the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, there was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Furthermore, a discussion of affirmative action programs designed to ameliorate the historical plight of Black Americans would be incomplete without pointing out their great positive effect on women’s opportunity in the academic and corporate spheres. Black History Month itself, initiated by Harvard graduate Carter G. Woodson, who received his doctorate in 1912, has led to similar celebrations of Hispanic, Irish, Jewish, Asian...
...Mizuho's plight is the latest indication that Japan's biggest and sickest banks might ultimately require government bailout and takeover. The day of reckoning may be approaching. New, tougher accounting rules laid down by Heizo Takenaka, Japan's reform-minded chief of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), begin to take effect on April 1. Under the guidelines, banks will be required to declare worthless many of the questionable loans listed on their books as recoverable assets. Designed to force banks to clean up their rotten lending portfolios, later reforms will also likely restrict the dubious practice of counting future...
...night, Sellars, in conjunction with the Harvard Film Archive, chose non-documentary films to provide an artistic perspective on the plight of refugees...