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...This is progress, however modest. In the past, the vast majority of Chinese companies single-mindedly focused on growth and profit, heedless of the impact their activities had on the environment and communities. Things began to change a few years ago, when "social responsibility went from being a topic pushed on China by others to one it took on as its own," says Zhou Weidong, who runs the China branch of the U.K.-based NGO Business for Social Responsibility. Zhou and others largely credit the government for pressuring companies to contribute to a "harmonious society," Beijing's catchphrase for promoting...
...is—at its core—a revolt against a particularly pernicious Enlightenment ideal, which assigned the task of social change to the “best and the brightest”. As Immanuel Wallerstein has argued, because thinkers in that tradition believed that rational thought promised progress, “it followed that normal political change ought to follow the path indicated by those who were most rational—that is, most educated, most skilled, therefore most wise.” The structuring fiction of this world order is the inequality of intelligences: If I understand...
...regime. This Sunday, the Boston Olympic Torch Relay and Rally sponsored by Massachusetts Dream for Darfur will help keep the focus on China. As an emerging superpower and the host of the 2008 Olympic games, China has to think about its public image. But there will be no progress so long as the United States, the U.K., and France themselves fail...
...have iPhones, and can’t give up on our aggressive Facebook stalking addiction. The City of Cambridge planned on installing a free wireless network for students, residents, and tourists alike. That was announced way back in February of 2006. What the hell happened? Very little. Almost no progress has been made in the Newtowne Court Housing Project and a small segment of Harvard Square in front of ABP. This area now offers free wireless service, according to Cambridge Chief Information Officer Mary P. Hart. “We’ve had mixed feedback,” said...
...responded to the increased importance of interdisciplinary study in academia by reevaluating its structure of decentralized departments and schools. Indeed, the planned committee is modeled in mandate and design on the highly successful University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering (UPCSE). Since UPCSE issued its final report last December, progress has been swift. In January, the Corporation created a permanent University Science and Engineering Committee and created a $50 million fund for it to work with. Last April, the Harvard’s first cross-school department—the Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology—was created...