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...addition, from the point of view of bringing the Harvard community together, these areas have the obvious benefit of requiring input from many—indeed most—of our faculties across the University. As intellectual matters, they touch on everything from basic research and scholarship to challenging and important applications that engage our professional schools. The issues presented by global health, energy, and the environment also cross the boundaries of the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, the dissemination of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa has, until recently, been inhibited by benighted leadership...
...anchored around a hub for interdisciplinary science research. To “consider more fully the opportunities and challenges” inherent in these programmatic goals, Summers convened four Allston task forces in 2003 to examine elements of the plan more closely. Goodman says that these committees eventually did touch on budgetary considerations in its evaluation of different ideas. But while most of the deans and faculty agreed that Harvard’s long-term needs required an energetic push into neighboring Allston, considerable friction soon arose around the plan’s particulars—and also around Summers?...
...don’t tell”—which bars openly gay people from service and has been cited in recent years as the reason ROTC remains off campus—Faust did not comment on the controversial policy yesterday. But Whitt did touch on the current absence of ROTC on campus and the reasons behind it, recalling his 1959 Harvard ROTC class of 121 students. He encouraged both Harvard and Congress to seek a compromise on the issue. “I hope the current issues of military matters at Harvard will be resolved and there will...
...ancient Chinese lifestyle of "humility and cultivating beauty from within." Amid the forests of Yangmingshan National Park above Taipei, in three sparsely furnished pavilions (in which Lin, sporting traditional tunics, meditates every morning with his staff), diners are offered "a chance to lower their voices, and get in touch with their true selves and an appreciation of simple things." (See Time.com/Travel for city guides, stories and advice...