Word: rigors
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...diseases of the poor but also because they are convinced that they are living through a historic inflection point when medical breakthroughs could save the lives of millions. They see the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation not as a solution but as a catalyst for this progress: pumping resources and rigor into the fight just when scientists are inventing new tools that could change everything. "This is a magic time in terms of the momentum we can get going," Bill says later from his hotel suite...
...standards are shaping the charitable marketplace as he has the software universe. "He wants to know where every penny goes," says Bono, whose DATA got off the ground with a Gates Foundation grant. "Not because those pennies mean so much to him, but because he's demanding efficiency." His rigor has been a blessing to everyone--not least of all Bono, who was at particular risk of not being taken seriously, just another guilty white guy pestering people for more money without focusing on where it goes. "When an Irish rock star starts talking about it, people go, yeah...
...than being here [at Harvard],” he says. As the child of Dominican immigrants, raised in what he describes as the ghetto of New York City, Perez managed to beat odds and become a top student at Stuyvesant High School, a magnet school known for its academic rigor. At Harvard, he has dedicated himself to improving those odds for others, joining Fuerza Latina and the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP), where he advocated for increased diversity in admissions. But he says admissions officers resisted his efforts. “I’m definitely much more cynical after...
...their home schools; allowing them to stay could negatively alter the class compositions of hurricane-affected schools given that an estimated 18,000 displaced New Orleans students were taken in by colleges around the country. Ultimately, this could lead to disastrous ramifications in terms of the economy, academic rigor, and social life at those schools. Although we can sympathize with the visiting students’ plea to stay, individual students should not be held above the success of their home schools, most of which count on their student population for said success. Clearly, these students found attractive qualities in their...
...those who oppose the move will ultimately be offset by the fundamentals of HBS’s grading policy itself. After Jan. 18, when HBS has said it will make a decision, we hope to see a revitalized business school that sports a better balance between collegiality and academic rigor...