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...University, the last year has been one of rapid approvals that have propelled it from planning the largest campus expansion in its history to actually building...
...just one of many philanthropic or socially conscious organizations started by young social entrepreneurs that is experiencing rapid growth and tremendous success. Countless others, including Orphans Against AIDS started by a 26-year-old Harvard Business School student and Unite for Sight started by a Yale sophomore in her dorm room, are living proof that young adults intent on changing the world can have a monumental impact. These recent college graduates who serve nationally and internationally in a myriad ways are no doubt idealists, but don’t they seem to have learned from the naïvet?...
...Student leaders said that more needed to be done to stop the rapid disappearance of minority voices on the law faculty, while Dean James Vorenberg ’48 insisted that it was proving difficult to find qualified minority scholars who should be granted tenure...
...disappointed that in your story on the Sichuan earthquake you found it necessary to refer to the recent unrest in Tibet and suggest that Beijing's rapid response to the disaster was calculated to "show the country and the world that the government can cope with nature's worst." The Chinese government merely wanted to rescue as many people as possible and give support and assurance to traumatized survivors and the devastated families of those killed. The death toll as I write is 60,000 and rising. Many urgent problems remain, and many touching stories of bravery, sacrifice and mateship...
Savannah's ability to balance imports and exports has been key to its rapid rise. Ship owners much prefer full vessels to empty ones. Savannah has been a raw-material exporter since the days of King Cotton, and its big challenge used to be finding enough imports to fill incoming ships. Port officials solved that by persuading the likes of Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Ikea to take advantage of ample vacant land near the port (something you don't find in New York or L.A.) to build distribution centers where they could unload merchandise from overseas and ship...