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...carpet event will also honor Washington’s wife Pauletta Washington for her work on the Pauletta and Denzel Washington Family Gifted Scholars Program in Neuroscience, which awards money to college students interested in medicine. Counter, who is also a neurobiology professor, sits on the charity??s selection committee...
...honorable to feed and cure people today (as we traditionally understand by “charity??), but it is at least as important to seek innovations that lower costs and increase the accessibility of basic necessities for survival. Why are some organizations and activities considered less worthy because they do not provide obvious, immediate proofs that they are useful? Why do we find it so difficult to abandon our love for short-term solutions and quick fixes...
...have no conclusions on charity??whether I should aim for efficacy or temper productivity with self-gratification. But the hassle of good works in a well-known place makes one daydream of absconding to the blissful tropics, like those bright-eyed Canadians...
...speech about the expedition in Cabot House last month. “Many so-called ‘benefit climbs’ only support charity with funds left after paying the trip’s expenses, but Myles has agreed to pass on all donations directly to charity?? Laursen said. Osborne will be trekking the snow-covered cliffs with SummitClimb Team, a professional organization that only takes applicants with experience. They will take the “North Col” route to the summit, a steeper and more challenging path than the more frequently traveled...
...cost of what only Harvard can do.Granted, no one is willing to empty the endowment for landmines. But if logical arithmetic deems it ludicrous to spend all $25.9 billion—because money spent on Harvard will go farther, in the end, than money spent on charity??then that same arithmetic also deems it wasteful to spend any money at all on charity. The University should play to its strengths and resist, on principle, the draining of its budget for arbitrary charitable causes.Rather than giving into public relations pressure and matching monetary donations, the University should instead offer...