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Stanford Law School officials announced Thursday that the faculty will reform its grading system in order to adopt an honors, pass, restricted credit, no credit grading system. Since Yale Law School has had a similar system for decades, the move means that Harvard is the only one of the top three law schools that has not moved to such a grading system, which has proved to be more popular law among students and has been praised for deemphasizing competition. With talks beginning as early as last year, Stanford Law School Dean Larry D. Kramer said in a telephone interview Friday...
PaperG plans to expand from city to city as several members of the now six-person company (which is also taking interns for the summer) graduate from Harvard and Yale and begin full-time work with PaperG...
...many small companies, the prospect of traditional online display advertising is daunting—both logistically difficult and costly. But a group of Harvard and Yale students are working to create an alternate advertising platform for this subset of advertisers...
...Blair now wants to tap into the global links that have been built between development activists and people of faith. "Faith," he says, "can be a civilizing force in globalization," which will doubtless be the theme of the course on the topic that he will be teaching at Yale this fall. His foundation will seek to partner with organizations to advance the U.N.'s eight Millennium Development Goals adopted in 2000. Blair's first target is malaria, which kills around 850,000 children each year; many of these deaths could be easily avoided by prophylactic bedding. "If you got churches...
...whose adherents tramped from one end of the earth to the other, saving souls. To be sure, in their zeal to convert, missionaries often mixed faith with cruelty, as Spain's blood-drenched conquest of Mexico in the name of God abundantly proved. But as Nayan Chanda of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization argued in his recent book Bound Together, the great religions were also intimately associated with the growth of trade and human contact. "For all the horror it visited upon people," wrote Chanda, "missionary activity had the effect of shrinking the world. The spread...