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...think it’s interesting that Harvard is trying to push the basic good of the activity,” she said. “In this neighborhood this has some currency...
Among its founding faculty are professors from MIT, Whitehead, the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). It will bring together basic, applied and clinical scientists, with experts from fields including computational biology, chemistry and engineering...
...addition to increasing basic financial aid for its students, Kagan said HLS hopes to increase its Low-Income Protection Plan—a debt-forgiveness program for HLS graduates who choose to avoid the more glamorous avenues of employment...
...Hamas's standing among ordinary Palestinians rests on a combination of factors. Its foundations are in the mosques and among the clergy, and its extensive social welfare networks have provided such basic services as health and daycare where the PA has often failed. By staying out of the PA it has avoided the taint of corruption associated with the authority in the minds of ordinary Palestinians, and the terror strikes conducted by its armed wing in Israeli cities have answered the desire for vengeance among many ordinary Palestinians, particularly in the embittered and impoverished refugee camps of Gaza. The failure...
...surprised by the decision, because they expected that while O'Connor would find the undergraduate program too rigid, she would not be willing to say race simply could not be a factor, as the Court's other four conservative members did. "Justice O'Connor wanted to stay in the basic universe Powell created," said University of Chicago Law Professor Cass Sunstein. Her opinion ensures that Powell's universe, in which race is a factor in admissions but can't be used in a quota or point system, will remain in place. "That precedent (Bakke) has now been codified into...