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...most of Fried's lectures on the island were organized by an NGO called Familias Saludables, he was determined to address as many people as possible during a recent week-long stay. Hours before the Flowers Bay talk, which had been canceled because the organizers could not find a proper venue, he found Mrs. Warner, a wizened elderly resident, who offered up her front lawn - a patch of windswept dirt - for the event. Fried managed to borrow several plastic chairs from the Sea Breeze Bar across the street. A single lightbulb hooked onto a long electrical cord and suspended from...
...finishing their filming and descending the mountain, all the while aware of what they were abandoning. If there was any consolation as they headed for home, it was that within a year the snows of Everest, in a final act of mercy, would provide the lost climbers with a proper and permanent burial...
...Baghdad's al-Dolai district last month shot her husband Amer dead before her eyes and torched all her worldly possessions. And the fear that the killers may come back for her and her two little children prevented her from mourning her husband. "I could not hold a proper wake for him," says the young widow. "He deserved at least that...
...Gutmann ’71, who has written a book with Thompson, Samantha Power, a Kennedy School of Government professor and Pulitzer Prize winner, and Internet law guru Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University. Discussion at the panels ranged from the ethical dilemmas surrounding government responses to genocide, to the proper allocation of healthcare services, to wages for service employees at wealthy universities. “These problems are real, they are hotly debated...and they need to be solved,” said Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a former fellow and prominent bioethicist who spoke in one of the panels...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby reminded freshmen in 2002, “You are here to work, and your business here is to learn.” Harvard students who, by participating in such political fiascoes, neglect their academic responsibilities—which surely entails proper nutrition—do not act selflessly; they act stupidly. All charity begins at home: You cannot solve the world’s problems if you cannot even attend to your own obligations...