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...City of Cambridge would exempt Harvard from its payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT). The resolution’s sponsor, Counsellor Marjorie C. Decker, said that the resolution is a symbolic method to highlight the absurdity of the layoffs. At the last Council meeting, Decker said she thought this type of gesture would shame Harvard into halting layoffs of low-wage workers. Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-09, a member of the Student Labor Action Movement, spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting. “As students who live and go to school at Harvard...
...include a certain balance of some of the best practices and ideas technologies, and sensibilities we thought we be important in terms of the future,” said GSD Dean Mohsen Mostafavi. According to Mostafavi, the main goal of the conference was to present a new type of thinking that could influence instruction at the GSD as well as the world outside of the school. Another overhanging goal, however, was to show how ecological urbanism and sustainability can be “responsive to needs of society and also fun.” “We want...
...Wong ’10 said he is the type of Harvard student who shops fifteen courses during the first week of the semester, and then has no idea what to take. This year, he dropped into his adviser’s office at the end of shopping period. Professor of Philosophy Edward J. Hall asked the graduate student in his office to come back another time, and immediately sat down with Wong for two-and-a-half hours to discuss his course selection.“He basically wrote all my possible courses on the board and made sense...
...chose Turkey to cap his first trip abroad. Turkey is a significant player in foreign policy issues that matter to the U.S. - concerning Iraq, Iran, Israel and the Palestinians, and Afghanistan. It also combines a mainly Muslim population with a secular democracy. Washington's close ties here exemplify the type of relationship Obama hopes to build with the rest of the Islamic world. "Some people have asked me if I chose to continue my travels to Ankara and Istanbul to send a message to the world," Obama said. "And my answer is simple: Evet...
...existing photographs of himself when he went into hiding and has not allowed himself to be seen in public since the 2002 press conference. The only recent photographs of Prabhakaran are those released by the Tigers. Some have speculated that Prabhakaran could use a light aircraft - of the type the Tigers have recently used in attempts to bomb the capital, Colombo - to make a last-minute escape. But the LTTE's air capability is very limited, says Shanaka Jayasekara, a lecturer at the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism at Macquarie University in Sydney. "The only possibility...