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...better or worse, Harvard’s actions greatly affect the surrounding community. Its employment of thousands of individuals from communities throughout Massachusetts and the university’s projects in the loci of those areas ensure a high level of codependence. The recently stalled initiative to build the Allston science complex, coupled with layoffs of Harvard employees, provides us with explicit proof that Harvard’s decisions have a significant effect on people within the school’s sphere of influence, regardless of whether those people are willing residents of that sphere. Meanwhile, Harvard occupies a peculiar...
...time demands by advocates such as Senator Charles E. Grassley, who until the crisis demanded higher spending from Harvard’s endowment. For many, Harvard was being too conservative even in the boom years; now it is more fashionable to criticize the university for its profligacy. The Allston project, with its new science complex, for example, was hailed as visionary—until the financial crisis put it on hold. Even the Boston Globe editorial admits the complex “will transform Allston” when it can be built. Such decisions are easy to call foolish after...
...screen, with Michael Jackson's This Is It, a docu-musical record of the star's rehearsals for his comeback London concert series that was to begin in July. Sony, the music and movie conglomerate that has had a decades-long stake in Jackson's economic fortunes, shrouded the project in mystery until its premiere, which was held simultaneously on Tuesday night and Wednesday in 16 cities around the globe. (Sony took over all 13 auditoriums of the Regal E-Walk Theater on New York City's 42nd Street to show the movie to 3,200 invitees.) Many...
...seems there is no similar outcry from Hopkins, where students and faculty may actually be excited about the project. In a Student Announcement from Dennis O'Shea, in Communications and Public Affairs at Hopkins, the school officially welcomes the film team, citing the boost such a project can bring to a local film industry struggling amid the recession...
...Despite the image he is trying to project of a lone individual squaring off against a heartless judicial machine, Karadzic is far from defenseless. He has assembled a formidable team of some 30 legal advisers, headed by Patrick Robinson, an American lawyer who once worked for the ICTY. For the past several months, the team has showered the tribunal with more than 400 motions and appeals, causing substantial delays to the process...