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...pushing the company to go after the lowest end of the spectrum: a sub-$40 phone aimed at farmers and the striving urban masses in India, several nations in Africa and, to a lesser extent, China. But he doesn't want to sell just cheap phones; he wants to transform those markets into a new base of customers for every product the company sells...
...that knowledge is not a static fixture but an organic construction, the more we realize that the world in which we live is not permanent and inflexible but instead created by us and always able to be recreated anew. By acknowledging how our understanding of the world is constantly transforming, we become increasingly aware of our potential to transform our world into a more human place. It’s time we improve sections in order to bring veritas, and with it a part of ourselves, back from the dead.Henry Seton ’06 is a social studies concentrator...
...medieval science of alchemy sought to transform base metals into gold. Aaron Patterson, the chef at Hambleton Hall, is an alchemist of tomatoes who turns the humble salad staple into something precious. He infuses the fruit into sorbets and foams, shaves it as thin as carpaccio or, in his signature dish, essence of tomatoes with Scottish langoustines, distills it to a clear soup of startlingly intense and glorious flavor...
...some years now, BGLTSA has been tilting at windmills to transform Harvard’s “gendered” bathrooms into “gender-neutral spaces.” The argument for the change is that those—and here’s another term to add to our overpopulated lexicon—“identifying” as transgendered feel alienated from gender-specific bathrooms, that they cannot be classified by those silhouetted stick figures, and so require a totalizing change to make them feel comfortable...
Mugane believes that “there is no way you can go and transform a place if you can’t speak to the people.” He encourages students to focus their attention on learning the languages that will help them foster a “dialogue” with Africa, either by eventually studying abroad in Africa or by simply better-appreciating African culture...