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...student at Harvard Business School; Professor Corky White, an anthropology professor at Boston University and a Japanese studies researcher at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute; Gus E. Rancatore, owner of Toscanini’s Ice Cream; Huan Zhou ’11, a resident of Adams House; and Robert V. Fitzsimmons ’10 of Pforzheimer House...
...February 23, for example, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) will co-host an event called “Poets for Haiti” in association with Lamont Library’s Woodberry Poetry Room. The event, which will feature former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky among others, will take place at Longfellow Hall at 7:30 PM. “Poets for Haiti” is just one in a string of events around campus raising funds for the Haitian earthquake victims...
While that may be true, Defense Secretary Robert Gates killed plans last year to buy a fleet of lasered 747s. However, Gates has continued R&D, and that gives missile-defense backers a flickering flame of hope. There's no doubt the companies involved - and their supporters in Congress - will use the shootdown to try to resurrect the program. After all, the heart of the program isn't a lumbering fleet of airliners but the chemical-oxygen-iodine lasers within...
...that cares only about dragging him down. Warriors on both sides have rushed to the mattresses to win every petty squabble and 15-minute news cycle. While candidate Obama admirably rejected the artifice and showmanship of politics, even the White House now regularly joins the fray, with press secretary Robert Gibbs often using the briefing-room rostrum to score points. Engaging in such antics might produce a short-term high, and might even yield some short-term victories, but it is no way to make friends or achieve anything meaningful for the country...
...bank bailouts. "First we're forced to watch our taxes save irresponsible bankers and immoral financial markets from collapsing under their own greed, and now we'll watch as the same politicians give the Greek government money to pay debts it piled up and lied about," complains Jean-Charles Robert, an information-technology employee from suburban Paris. "It never ends - in fact, it just gets worse...