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Last Friday, the spring sun warmed the air and a gentle breeze rustled trees in Radcliffe Yard. Too cheerful a setting for “The Future of Humans Rights Practice: Innovations in Africa” conference? Not if one follows the latest evolution in development aid standards??in fact, a miracle can happen: “Africa,” “human rights,” and “optimism” can indeed be used in the same sentence. It may not surprise many that Paul Wolfowitz, the newly anointed chief...
...academic endeavors. The opportunity to attend a private university such as Harvard is a privilege rather than a right, and that privilege may be reasonably reconsidered in light of a student’s actions. The Ad Board explicitly recognizes “resolution of...breaches of community standards?? as one of its primary functions. While some might reasonably argue that the College should do more to ensure that students are aware of its expected standards of behavior, that those standards should apply broadly is in the best interest of our institution. What does all this mean...
...seems absurd to us—Facebook uses it, Google uses it, universities use it, and each in its own way. Only when we demand that Microsoft and Apple and others play nice with one another—only when they’ve made their specifications into open standards??will we come to see web-style explosive innovation in the various markets they control...
...code of conduct, adopted in the spring of 2004, outlines the “primary standards,” including nondiscrimination and freedom of collective bargaining, as well as “preferential standards??—such as a living wage and environmental protection—that the university demands its contracted vendors to uphold...
Summers also joked that members of the Institute’s executive committee agreed more often with Edythe Broad’s “standards?? for the Institute than with Eli?...