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...housing experts with ideas about how low-income, workforce, and Harvard-affiliate housing can be symbiotically integrated? Where are the members of the Harvard community who fiercely believe in justice, equality, and corporate responsibility? Where are the negotiators who seek innovative ways to achieve mutual gain and write best-selling books advocating “win-win” collaboration? Where are the people who say “Yes we can” when they look squarely at the challenges we face in today’s society...

Author: By Harry Mattison | Title: A New Citizen of Allston | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...started unpacking and kept watching TV. I was constantly getting e-mails from family, from friends and colleagues... during these two days I must've got 2,000 e-mails. Some people would write in six to eight times a day, just to let me know they were hoping I'd make it out safe. Some would send humorous messages... it felt nice people were trying to keep me amused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trapped in Mumbai: A Survivor's Tale | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...take more responsibility in the world." In other words, it's not just about food parcels or blankets. It's about an idea of what the world's most populous nation can be. And that gets CEOs sheepishly arising from their cognac and shark-fin banquets to write checks. It makes the poor queue at post offices to offer gifts of a few grubby notes. It even persuades Italian fashion icons to sully their extravagant shoes in the mud of ravaged rural Sichuan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Liberation of Jet Li | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...Hudson Valley makes it sound like Native Americans never existed [Nov. 3]. Why is it that the media so often neglect them as if they were not humans, and imply instead that the Europeans were the first to walk and talk in America? Just because the Indians did not write with Latin letters does not mean they should be omitted from the record. Douglas Eivind Hall, FUENGIROLA, SPAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capturing the Moment | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...coin collection as one of the largest in the world. "A lot of people call us crazy," he told the paper, "but I think it's a worthwhile hobby. It keeps me broke most of the time." Like any master hunter, he had a scavenger's instincts. He would write to missionaries serving in the most remote corners of the world, offering a modest contribution in return for two samples of the local currency. He would sell one and keep the other, a self-financing collection that eventually grew to more than 200,000 pieces--from ancient Etruscan rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama, and the Rush For Election Souvenirs | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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