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...upward trend. Harvard should be proud to be ranked as a leader in sustainability, but it is important that the school does not take its A- grade to mean there is no further work to be done. There are always improvements that can be made, and Harvard should constantly strive to increase sustainability and not rest on its laurels. While Harvard’s budgetary constraints are far less prohibitive than those of most other schools, we hope that all colleges also continue to better their environmental practices proportional to their endowments. As Harvard approaches a critical moment...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Blue Skies Ahead | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...strive for perfection, but I'm human. The way to fix that is to provide oversight and redundancy. There are two pilots in the cockpit of every commercial aircraft. If one of them has a heart attack or makes a mistake, the other one is there to fix it. What's happened over the last few years is to save money, they've engineered out oversight of the human element. It's too expensive to have that second team sitting and watching the first team. So the bottom line is that one of the prescriptions for improving safety is hiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Traffic Controller Sounds Alarm | 4/26/2008 | See Source »

...That’s something we strive to do—we try to play in a way that if everybody is capable, dangerous, and ready and we make good decisions, it could be a situation where every week someone new is stepping up, making a play,” Tillman said. “That makes us trickier to defend and allows us flexibility...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard to Play Spoiler at Yale | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...arriving - and offering a poignant and unprecedented private meeting with victims of abusive priests - Benedict focused his remarks in New York on the need to repair the bond between the faithful and their priests. He prayed for "purification" and "healing," assuring the priests of his "spiritual closeness as you strive to respond with Christian hope to the continuing challenges that this situation presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Benedict Yearning to Heal His Flock | 4/19/2008 | See Source »

...sparse sentences and luscious imagery are reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid, who was Ganeshananthan’s English thesis advisor at Harvard. Ganeshananthan admits in her acknowledgments that Kinkaid’s “particular brand of meticulous attention continues to be the standard for which I strive,” and there are multiple moments when Ganeshananthan soars to the same heights of literary joy as her mentor. When Yalini describes her similarity to her Aunt Uma, Ganeshananthan’s prose takes off: “Uma was not there, not there to the point that when...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Love' Blends Old With New | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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