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Were it to stick to safe, easy topics, the Faculty might find time to discuss these issues at next week’s emergency meeting. But what requires bravery, real bravery, is to place anonymous quotations in student newspapers, to focus attention on illusory repression, and to shortcut discussion by calling for a motion of no confidence...
...committee also discussed extending a designated pathway, or a well-lit path that the committee has deemed safe, to the shortcut students use on the south side of Harvard Street to access the Union dorms. A freshman was robbed at gunpoint outside Pennypacker Hall last November, a month after an indecent assault in the same area...
...vaunted Harvard College Courses. It also means asking whether HCC will be required, and if so, how many HCC each student must take, and in what areas. The Committee has begun to ask these questions, but answering these questions without first establishing a formidable foundation is a short-sighted shortcut...
...Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda enjoyed years of protected markets at home, then set up operations abroad that introduced new production techniques or superior engineering. In Korea, Samsung and Hyundai took decades to build respected brands. By contrast, electronics maker LG failed to establish a thriving business from its shortcut purchase of the TV brand Zenith?though it has recently been much more successful in penetrating global markets by pushing its own brand. Chinese acquirers will face similar challenges. TCL has yet to explain how it will turn around money-losing Thomson, which sells old TV models, and boardroom squabbles...
...years, Aristotle International has become one of the most influential, if invisible, private-sector players in politics. Its newest software for candidates, grass-roots organizations and political-action committees, the company boasts, provides users with a shortcut to information that would typically require 20 years' experience in political-campaign work to gather. Clients can search Aristotle's database of 157 million voters, campaign donors, fund raisers and others, drilling for untapped supporters. The company tries to be "scrupulously bipartisan," says a spokesman, and sees itself as a utility, similar to an Internet provider, that sells to anybody...