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...that college sports is there as alternative way to see sports at a high level. Since the Crimson has appeared in the NCAA Tournament five times in the past six years, fans get to see high-quality talent on a consistent basis without their wallets taking a hit. Why shell out more than $100 for mediocre balcony seats to see the Boston Bruins lose another game, when about half that much money sits you and your whole family a few rows from the ice, where you can see players who skate hard on every play, where...
...fragmented departments and research groups, we hope that Shell’s funds will indeed be used in collaborative and multidisciplinary projects. A model to emulate is the Stem Cell Institute, which successfully integrates scholars and techniques from across the university. In this respect, we hope that the Shell donation will not just be a funding pool that will serve many different needs but that instead it will force people currently separated by institutional boundaries to work together...
...donation is also a milestone for the environmental movement, which is forcing multibillion dollar companies to confront an unpleasant reality from the ground-up. The very source of KSG’s latest donation, Shell, illustrates the transformation of fossil fuel behemoths into supporters of future green energy research. Shell is by no means alone: Other giants like Exxon-Mobil and British Petroleum (BP) have also focused on research on more efficient energy sources and better policies. In fact, for several years now, BP has been cleverly marketing itself as “Beyond Petroleum...
...major oil company is shelling out money for programs at the Kennedy School of Government. A division of Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s second-largest publicly traded oil company, will donate $3.75 million over the next five years to fund energy policy research across the University, the school announced this week. William W. Hogan, the research director of the Harvard Electric Policy Group and an architect of the agreement, said the school has yet to decide precisely how the money will be allocated. “We’re in the process of forming a faculty...
...patriotic celebrations go, I think you may be neglecting Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July. Super Bowl Sunday? “Blatant symbols of colonialist repression and American exceptionalism. My favorite holidays are Diwali and Bastille Day.” I read somewhere that Americans will shell out $5 billion on Halloween this year. Spending’s up more than 50% since 2005. But it’s still just chump change, compared to the $475 billion we’ll blow on Christmas. “Get back to me when Adams House...