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...even larger problem is brewing, according to Christopher Leinberger, a real estate professor at the University of Michigan and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. If there are no longer enough people who want to own overgrown houses in far-flung suburbs, we could see a repeat of what happened in center cities in the 1950s and '60s, when abandoned homes helped set off blight. What we really need to do, Leinberger says, is reinvent entire communities as the sorts of places where people want to live. That means building mass transit and urban-style city centers away from...
...agree that the brio-creating strategy is very energizing,” said English Professor Lawrence Buell. “But I can see that there could be a problem if we had to depend on it to the last as a form of historiography...
...crucial for the Crimson all night. Although Dartmouth put up six and a half blocks relative to Harvard’s six, and the two teams both totaled 60 digs on the night, scrappy defensive play kept Harvard in the game. Accepting the serve did prove to be a problem, though, as Dartmouth racked up eight aces on the night...
When implementing recent budget cut decisions, the administration has appeared somewhat closed to outside influence. Thankfully, there may be a remedy to this glaring problem. FAS has now launched an online Idea Bank inviting students, faculty members, and the community to submit their budget cut ideas and rate those of others. Administrators have already successfully halved the FAS deficit, bringing it down to a more manageable $110 million from the original figure of $220 million. Now they are asking the broader Harvard community to have a role in coming up with possible additional cuts...
...paying U.N. member dues, unlike the previous administration, which neglected its fiduciary responsibilities to the body. This reconciliatory approach, coupled with the removal of aggressively situated missile defense shields in Eastern Europe, has paid out enormous political dividends in the form of cooperation from other nations on the problem of nuclear weapons in Iran. Specifically, Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev has expressed a new level of receptiveness to the idea of helping the U.S. curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions, stating, “We believe we need to help Iran to take a right decision... sanctions rarely lead...