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...protester at SLAM’s recent rally, “We have too many luxuries here to be cutting down on peoples livelihoods. There are other sacrifices the community should make before laying off workers.”SLAM claims that it is interested in helping the administration brainstorm more creative ways to tailor the budget such that layoffs would not be necessary. Their blog points to other academic institutions, such as Stanford and Washington University, where top administrators are taking pay cuts of up to 10%. “Harvard should be a model for the world...
...keep the wombat from going the way of the dodo, environmental officials gathered at Epping in late 2007 to brainstorm a radical shift in strategy: they would abandon business as usual by embracing Big Business. The wombat program had operated on a shoestring budget for years, and millions were needed to establish the second colony. "To do this properly, we need the big bucks," said Queensland wildlife-conservation chief Rebecca Williams, sitting at a table outside the ramshackle trailer that serves as the camp's kitchen and makeshift lab. "So think differently...
...crisis has so far led to unprecedented international cooperation. Three weeks from now, the G-20 will meet to brainstorm some solutions to the recession. There, the powers must decide how to balance the market and the state intervention in many different cases. They will undoubtedly recognize that “economic nationalism” has always been under the surface of globalization, implement the good aspects of state intervention and protection, and steer clear of the others...
...late as April of last year, Harris engaged in dialogue with the Undergraduate Council to brainstorm a host of options for J-term, such as offering short classes on everything from PowerPoint to metalworking. This academic year, however, we have heard little or no concrete details from the College about its vision for the new term. Even a basic outline for the term or a window into its planning process would suffice, but, with next January looming closer, Harris’s comments are the first suggestion of a new and very different plan in the works...
Residents also faulted Harvard for failing to fully utilize its resources—such as its professors and students—to brainstorm ways to help the neighborhood...