Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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You have probably heard of the Inuit who barred a stranger from using his hearth because the fire might only be half as warm if two people shared it. Since a Harvard education should be a resource more like a fire than an apple, it is good to hear many...
Harvard students prefer public service in the form of financial contribution and political office for lots of reasons: After graduating, they will likely be rich (enabling the first form of public service) and they will likely be well-qualified (enabling service in the second form). Maybe the first two forms...
Direct service provision such as tutoring prisoners or sheltering battered women is inherently a band-aid solution applied after the cut has already been made. Political involvement, on the other hand, attacks the system with legislation that keeps men out of prisons and women out of shelters to begin with...
Change may be coming to the system soon, though. In response to the T's rising costs, the Massachusetts House of Representatives approved a bill earlier this month that would overhaul the MBTA's finances. The bill's most controversial provision calls for a fare hike, from 85 cents to...
It is appropriate that the cost of the system be shared by everyone who benefits from it, and not just those who ride. The extra 15 cents would not hurt, but the precedent that the system should pay for itself would. Other parts of the bill, including a provision that...