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Because Cambridge and Boston are "in robust health," the University does not face the immediate problem of an unsafe or economically downtrodden location, according to Grogan...
...most casual cruise on the Internet shows how much debate Malthus still stirs today. Basically, the Pollyannas of this world say that Malthus was wrong; the population has continued to grow, economies remain robust--and famines in Biafra and Ethiopia are more aberrations than signs of the future. Cassandras reply that Malthus was right, but techno-fixes have postponed the day of reckoning. There are now 6 billion people on Earth. The Pollyannas say the more the merrier; the Cassandras say that is already twice as many as can be supported in middle-class comfort, and the world is running...
Continued political and financial support for the United Nations will come more easily from American politicians when Americans themselves are aware of the significance of international affairs in their daily life. Our first priority is therefore to integrate a more robust global perspective into our educational system at every level, beginning with the United Nations Week events on campus this week...
...able to draw, disproportionately, the most talented people to the University for many reasons, but one of them is unquestionably the fact that from Harvard Square to Copley Square...we are fortunate to be surrounded by a vital and robust urban environment," Rudenstine said...
Rising interest rates helped bring that about. In Wall Street's perverse logic, higher rates, reflecting a robust economy--employment figures last Friday were strong--and the threat of inflation, are seen as negative because they threaten to slow the economy longer term and put off Internet profits further into the future...