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...Break up institutions that are too big to fail so that we can allow them to fail. I don't know exactly how to do this - does anyone? - but that's how we solve the problem of letting the small fry fail while saving the wounded whales. Perhaps, as many have urged lately, we can start by reviving elements of the Glass-Steagall Act that kept old-fashioned banks out of the far riskier investment business. And out of big trouble. As we've seen, most of the giant rescued institutions didn't understand their problems until...
Going forward, the U.S.'s knowledge economy may be a setup for a greater degree of income equality, but it's certainly no guarantee. To take one small example, if we, as a society, decide that new areas of knowledge are eligible for strict patents and copyrights - and that that knowledge can then be cloistered within the lineage of the inventor - it will be easier for a parent to pass wealth onto a child and, as a consequence, keep that family richer than others. Economic systems matter. But we're still the ones in control...
When the multi-sport standout arrived at Harvard, she intended to focus on lacrosse. But due to the field hockey team’s small size, Harvard coach Sue Caples issued an open invitation to those athletes with experience in the sport to join the team for some full-field scrimmages. After trying it out, Kucharczyk realized this was a chance she couldn’t pass...
Some of these protestors followed Obama downtown to the Westin Copley Place hotel, the site of a fundraiser for Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78. Here, they were joined by groups protesting for LGBT rights. A small crowd gathered around James Cardine, a local resident, as he spoke against society’s perception of nontraditional relationships. “We are born imperfect only because we are born here, in this country, at this time,” he said...
...number of the programs operating under PBHA’s purview, including the Small Claims Advisory Service, Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment, and the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, will continue to serve the community during the school recess...