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...stop Google, we feel that publishing companies need to be less obstructionist and more proactive in digitizing their material. Harvard University’s withdrawal is unfortunate but both understandable and expected. That said, as legal pressure from publishers continues to grow, Harvard can and should find other ways??beyond just allowing the scanning of books no longer subject to copyright laws—to aid Google’s digitization project. For example, Harvard should explore the possibility of allowing books that are published through its own publishing house to be scanned. Many important works, such...
...College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Faculty, Faust offered a sobering view of the state of the University’s financial performance during the present downturn. “Like all investments, our endowment has been touched—blown in some ways??hit by widespread losses across the world in investment values,” Faust said, while her colleagues at the head table, many of whom appeared amused at other points in the meeting, sat grim-faced. Harvard’s endowment grew 8.6 percent during the year ending in June...
...food system do not allow for that at this point.” But Martin said HUDS will continue to take active steps in that direction. “We do continue to try and find new sources for local food and improve our general [carbon] footprint in creative ways?? she said. —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...
...Even more troubling is the fact that the adoption of the deal allows India to bypass the NPT framework, which promises nuclear fuel for electricity generation to nations that do not create weapons programs. Allowing India to have it both ways??to receive the benefits of “peaceful nuclear cooperation” despite the fact that the nation has built weapons—creates a double standard that could ultimately undermine U.S. policy toward nations like Iran, where diplomats have been promising to aid Iran’s civilian nuclear program if the nation abandons...
...before his departure. The President continues to see the region through a distorting East-West prism; countries are distinguished only by their allegiance to either capitalism or communism. The real problems of Latin America—the social, economic and political inequities that affect different nations in different ways??continue to be ignored. A tenuous case can be made that the Administration is taking a harder line on human rights excesses in El Salvador. But the White House’s recent attempts to sell aims to the rightist regime in Guatemala and destabilize the leftist government...