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...works for nearly two decades, slowed by squabbling among city fathers over its site, design, materials and even whether Luxembourg - a hardheaded realm of financiers and Eurocrats - needed such an extravagance. Jacques Santer, the country's former Prime Minister and a European Commission President, helped convince them to seek repute as a cultural capital instead of a mere tax haven...
...this work," says Malcolm Bond, the Estée Lauder Cos.' executive vice president of global operations. "They then become the role model for our other brands to pick up on." Lauder employs 30 people in its environment, health and safety division to figure out how to reduce energy consumption, seek new energy sources and find ways to use postconsumer and sustainable materials in each of its 25 brands. "For example, we've reduced our power consumption company-wide by about 10% since 1998," says Bond. "That's the equivalent of us planting 1.9 million trees. It gives us a couple...
...sound. One of Harvard’s greatest assets is its tightly knit residential communities, which are bound together largely through shared meals. The flexible meal plan proposal has the potential to turn Harvard’s dining halls from House kitchens into House restaurants. Yet if we seek to build and maintain House community, an obvious first step is to implement more student-friendly dining hall hours. As with all questions of budgeting, we are faced with a choice. We could stick with the current system, and continue to complain about irrational and restrictive mealtimes indefinitely, or we could...
Virginia legislators unanimously passed a bill prohibiting the state’s public universities from punishing or expelling students who attempt to commit suicide or seek treatment for suicidal tendencies. The legislation, approved on Friday, comes in the wake of a spate of suicides at Virginia universities. And it follows several high-profile cases, including one at MIT in 2000, in which families of college students who were suspected of committing suicide sued universities officials for failing to provide adequate mental health care. “It is the only bill of its type in the country...
...captain Julie Chu’s goal late in the third period propelled the Crimson (23-6-2) to the ECAC semifinals where it will seek its fourth consecutive conference tournament title...