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Conventional wisdom holds that, unlike some of its peer institutions, Harvard doesn’t have a crime problem. At the University of Pennsylvania, tour guides point out the forest of emergency phones up and down the campus’ main drag, a panacea against the reputed urban ills of the university’s setting in West Philadelphia, a locality that is probably more familiar to college students as the crime-addled birthplace of the Fresh Prince of Belair. During our annual pissing match with Yale, Harvard students love to poke fun at New Haven’s unsafe...
...hectares of prime harborfront owned by the government. In a city where land is worth its width in gold, the scheme, launched by Tung, ran into legislative gridlock amid concerns of a sweetheart deal for the developer that would be chosen. Critics also questioned the government's wisdom-and expertise-in creating a costly arts hub without first gauging the level of public interest in it. Today, West Kowloon, possibly some of the most valuable real estate on the planet, stands idle-a dirt wasteland. Tsang has failed to advance other elements of his agenda, too. Air pollution, a perennial...
...number of key people in Hong Kong), Tsang has his roots deep in the city. Because of his background as an official in the British administration, for which he received a knighthood, Hong Kong's leftist camp has never fully trusted Tsang as a Beijing loyalist. Indeed, the conventional wisdom is that China's leaders are still feeling him out. But among his own people, that doesn't necessarily hurt Tsang. "They see him as someone who is not a partisan of these groups," says Michael DeGolyer, who heads the Hong Kong Transition Project at Hong Kong Baptist University...
...brief, largely biographical introduction, he nonetheless found time to describe Summers as “outspoken,” “provocative,” “interesting,” “lively,” “willing to challenge conventional wisdom,” and “maybe even sometimes controversial...
...will work. Every day starting with the end of this March of Madness, I will work to find this Shelomi wisdom...