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Imagine a UC that delivers on its promises??not a day late and a dollar short but instead, on time and to the letter. Imagine a UC that doesn’t churn out position papers like a Washington think-tank, but instead makes real change happen—not on paper, but in reality. Imagine a UC actively focused on its principle task: improving the student experience at Harvard...
Worse still, the 26 pages of the book that are actually devoted to laying out a plan for withdrawal—as the title promises??are filled with mediocre, tired, and vague proposals...
...says Vince O’Donnell, vice president for housing preservation at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, which is working on the negotiations with the tenants.As the University deepens its presence across the river, it comes one step closer to the realization of ambitious, multi-generational promises??cures for debilitating diseases, economic rebirth, and a new partnership between city and University. In the path of this epic proposal are 213 crumbling apartments, populated by immigrants, single mothers, and the elderly. For some the move represents a new washing machine; for others, the eviction from a place they have...
...UCRC’s proposal would also allow candidates to run much more focused and substantive campaigns than is currently the case. As it is now, candidates often make three sets of vague and stale promises??without knowing exactly which committee they will be elected to, how could they do anything else? Under the proposed reform, student voters would benefit from specific discussions of the issues related to each committee, and, in turn, cast better informed ballots...
Like every other too-good-to-be-true politico, King believes in public service as an avocation, not a career. “Governor then home,” he promised, and—like all the other promises??“governor then home” he would deliver. The centrifugal force that used to pull the best and the brightest to Washington now seems to keep the idealists and the uniters from getting too close...