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...knows who they are and who they are in the world,” Fried says. “Sixth grade is the time of your life when you’re looking for connections.” Initiated this fall, Silk Road Connect employs a variety of tools??including workshops with the ensemble and partnerships with major institutions—to explore the effects of cross-cultural exchange. Students receive DNA testing sponsored by National Geographic to explore their ancestry, for example, and work with an existing gallery on the Silk Road in New York?...
...view of economic trends rather than heavily statistical data analysis. And “common sense” also applies to deciding which data points are relevant in any given scenario, making it relevant even in a quantitative modeling context.“Sophisticated analysts will combine many different tools??one part intuition, one part historical data, and one part mathematical modeling—to come up with good decisions,” Laibson says.In practice, though, moving entirely to the “common sense” approach on the trading floor is far from a panacea...
...public drunkenness. It is okay, he says, to be drunk in private, but not in public. But he is clear to note that in private or public, Islam does not sanction homosexuality. So why were nine AIDS activists arrested with only lubricants and condoms—standard HIV-prevention tools??as supposed evidence of private homosexual conduct?The answer is that several authorities are guilty of the same sin as the HRW: disregard for historical and cultural context. Ignorance of the wide history of Shari’a law has permitted judges to antagonize gays.A study by International...
...Associated Press before coming to the Law School. “I became frustrated with what I could do from a journalistic perspective, and decided that I want a different set of tools,” Long said. “Law school for me is about gaining those tools??figuring out how to affect change from an advocacy standpoint and from a legal standpoint...
...environment through our products—knowledge through research, students through teaching, outreach by faculty student participation. Kelly S. Gallagher, the director of HKS’s Energy Technology Innovation Project, took an intermediate position, saying that Harvard must both “[instigate] knowledge and [give] people tools?? and reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions. The final panelist, Richard J. Zeckhauser, said that the outcome of the effort is more important than specific means. He pointed to former vice president Al Gore, who owns a “very large house” but has nonetheless contributed...