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...dangerous repercussion is its misconstrual of the role universities play in society. By conditioning federal funding on compliance with military recruitment, the Pentagon makes federal funding seem like a reward. This perpetrates the image of federal grants as a one-sided benefit—that Harvard receives a large sum of taxpayer money essentially for free. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Harvard indeed receives from the government—to the tune of over $400 million a year—but most of those funds go to the Medical School. This money is then used...
...also one of the reasons John Hardy jewelry has such a following. Customers feel an intensely personal bond with their pieces. Hardy says it's because the jewelry has soul, something he attributes to the fact that everything he designs is handmade. ?Our jewelry is more than the sum of its parts,? he says. ?The man who carved your bracelet is proud of it.? That's Hardy's critical ingredient for luxury: the hand-hewn imperfections that turn a thing of beauty into a work...
...claim hinges on what happened after Australian SAS soldiers captured the three Iranians carrying a large sum of money on Highway 10. The Switzerland-based lawyer alleges the three men were from the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, an Iranian opposition group which had significant military bases in Iraq, but was not fighting against the invading U.S.-led coalition forces. Henzelin says the problems arose when Australian soldiers handed the Iranians - and the money - to U.S. forces. In his claim, Henzelin alleges the Iranians were then subjected to interrogation and torture despite being members of a group which...
...premise that ambition is the "need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it" confuses ambition with greed and cutthroat competitiveness. Nature may be a zero-sum game, but civilization is not. Ambitious people don't just grab a bigger piece of the pie; they make the pie bigger, so there's more to go around. Ambitious people brought us the printing press, the personal computer, medical advances and agricultural efficiencies undreamed of 100 years...
...Imperial Palace to a rented one-bedroom apartment. The former Princess has quit her job as an ornithological researcher to practice her cooking and learn to drive before becoming a housewife. She will pay taxes and no longer receive a royal stipend, although she will be given a lump sum of $1.3 million to start her new life...