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Quincy resident Timothy B. Urban ’04 says that maintaining the professionalism of the tutors is more important than fostering a friendly atmosphere...
According to Graduate School of Design Professor of Urban Design Alex B. Krieger, MIT made the decision more than a decade ago that Harvard could make today...
...Kenyan chapter of Transparency International suggests that small, everyday bribes are just as costly as big-time fraud. Researchers asked more than 1,000 Kenyans how often they were hit up for bribes, how much they paid and whether things were getting worse. Respondents to the Kenyan Urban Bribery Index, as the survey is called, paid around 16 bribes a month, an average of $100 or one-third of respondents' mean monthly income. Most respondents said things were getting worse. The biggest bribe takers, according to the findings, are law-enforcement institutions like the police and the judiciary. The immigration...
...part of a program of academic exchange with German universities, Harvard named Albert Speer as a visiting professor of architecture and urban planning. There was some controversy about this appointment: not only was Speer a member of the Nazi party, he was the Third Reich’s leading public architect and a close friend of the Fuehrer. Indeed, shortly after arriving at Harvard, Speer defended the Nazi regime in an interview with the Boston papers, saying that “Adolf Hitler is the glue that holds Germany together...
...Coyula-Cowley, you ask? Why, he is the new Robert F. Kennedy professor at the Graduate School of Design, where he will teach architecture and urban planning. He is also a member of Cuba’s Communist Party. Indeed, he is a high-ranking government official, the head of the island nation’s urban planning commission. And he is no johnny-come-lately to Fidel Castro’s government—Coyula-Cowley helped organize the 1959 rebellion that swept the bearded dictator into power, and has held numerous government appointments over the decades since. Among...