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...Harvard football team—deeply conscious of its own history??€”views Kennedy’s legacy as a part...
This year’s fundraising total was aided by a number of large donations, most notably a $125 million gift over the next five years—the largest in Harvard’s history??€”from Business School graduate Hansjörg Wyss to fund the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Allston. Gifts of over $1 million accounted for over 40 percent of the cash total...
...advocate for the subject’s revitalization. Various faculty members, over 20 of whom now sit on the committee, also supported the effort.The Standing Committee’s input contributed to the hiring of two visiting faculty—Hua H. Hsu in English and Denise Khor in history??€”who are teaching courses related to ethnic studies this year. Sollors said he hopes to work within financial constraints to recruit more visiting faculty in future years.Sollors and his colleagues want to focus on teaching ethnicity, migration, indigeneity, and human rights, he said, adding that the many strands...
...young people who share Kennedy’s vision, his life can teach us that even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges, history??€™s long arc indeed bends toward justice. For Democrats moving forward with an ambitious agenda for reforming healthcare, energy, and education policy (to name only a few), Kennedy’s moral voice should continue to resonate. Arguments based on the nuances of legislative language and cost-benefit analysis are indispensable to sound public policy, but should never drown out debate over the broader moral imperatives that Kennedy understood and articulated so well...
...manager of the Washington Nationals, Manny Acta witnessed 28 members of Congress lose their jobs due to poor performances; you’d think he’d have gotten the memo. Instead, he led the Nats to the worst first half of the baseball season in their history??€”and was promptly fired himself...