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...science and technology, we will launch a new fund to support technological development in Muslim-majority countries, and to help transfer ideas to the marketplace so they can create jobs. We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops. And today I am announcing a new global effort with the Organization of the Islamic Conference to eradicate polio. And we will also expand partnerships with Muslim communities...
...fellow transfer students are some of the happiest people I know here, with an outside point of view and basis for comparison that allow for a heightened appreciation of all that Harvard has to offer. The student body as a whole benefits from this diversity of perspective that transfers bring in and suffers without it. Harvard must be able to admit that mistakes can be made: A student could have made a mistake not applying to or not choosing Harvard the first time around, and the admissions office could have made a mistake in not accepting a student the first...
...When I was considering transferring during my freshman year of college, I looked with disdain upon Princeton when I learned that it was— at the time—the only other Ivy League school that did not accept transfer students. I thought that it represented a brand of elitism that was unique to Princeton. That school remains Harvard’s only Ivy League partner-in-crime in this decision. And, outside of the Ivy League, top schools like Stanford, Duke, the University of Chicago, Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore all accept transfer students. Harvard should be as concerned...
...Harvard would do well not to close the door after freshman year: There’s a lot to be gained from transfer admissions by everyone involved...
Because of a prisoner-transfer agreement signed last month between Britain and Laos, Orobator may be able to serve her sentence back home instead of in one of Laos' notoriously decrepit prisons. Previous foreign inmates in Laos have complained of torture, inadequate food and routine overcrowding of cells...