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...revolutionary will this be? If car sharing is to have a national impact on congestion, it must surmount a basic paradox: everyone hates traffic and smog, but few people are willing to give up their cars. In the U.S., as the saying goes, you are what you drive. And a half-century of highway subsidies has only fueled the sense of entitlement. According to a poll on traffic by TIME, ABC News and the Washington Post, only 10% of those surveyed who have access to mass transit actually use it regularly. "There's a stigma to not owning...
...wasn't anything I could do." Matt told her he signed up to earn money for school. Carolyn, 57, said they could have managed college without his enlisting. "I don't want to manage, Mom," he told her. "I want to get it done." He soon headed off to basic training at Fort Jackson...
...that hurt them, such as ending affirmative action, withholding money from global AIDS funding and overthrowing the democratically elected government of Haiti. Despite the significant progress that black people have made since the end of slavery and colonization, black people are still collectively oppressed as black people, and the basic premise of modern Pan-Africanism is that black people, especially privileged black people, must collectively respond to this oppression. If we don’t, who will...
...psychology concentrator in Eliot House who sadistically betrayed her Harvard Independent co-workers by applying for a cartooning position at The Crimson, and then threw pointy ninja stars at them by reapplying three times. Although she enjoys penning metaphorical third person statements that imply a basic familiarity with martial arts fighting techniques, this native of picturesque Fresno, Calif. in fact has no idea what she is talking about. Look for her cartoon on Wednesdays...
Doubtless, Harvard owes Cambridge much as well, and for more than just basic city services. However, their relationship is symbiotic—cooperation and trust is key. By asking for a renegotiation of the PILOT many years in advance, Cambridge breached this trust. And Harvard administrators, perhaps rightly, chose to cave. What worth the University wrings in the future from this new agreement and the attendant improvement in town-gown relations remains to be seen. For $255 million over 50 years, funds that could be utilized elsewhere, we expect a lot from Harvard’s obstinate host...