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...spirit of commitment to avoid the creation of an American aristocracy demonstrated by President James B. Conant ’13, it is time for Harvard to lead a transformation of social mobility. Doing so would revolutionize education, boosting both academic excellence and our mission to favor equality of opportunities. That is a worthy prescription for America’s inequality disease, and Harvard is uniquely positioned to apply the treatment. Because we can, because we should, let’s make Harvard free...
...success of a fashionable restaurant as, say, a celebrity clientele or a daring menu. But that's not true in the case of Singapore's new breed of modish eateries. A few of the city's fashion-forward restaurateurs have forsaken Orchard Road's madding crowds in favor of verdant retreats where cool cuisine comes with a side order of peace and quiet. Maybe it's due to a reluctance to pay city-center rents. Or perhaps it's because of the realization that, in compact Singapore, nowhere is that far from anywhere else. Whatever the reason, if you want...
...production shot on film. None of those attributes are inherent in film alone, but are rather created by the person whose eye is at the viewfinder. Would we believe for a minute that Ansel Adams was sad the day he was able to stop lugging around glass plates in favor of film? William C. Simone Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S. Movies have evolved and will keep doing so as technology advances. I predict that Hollywood will eventually make feature-length movies by digitally re-creating long-gone movie legends. Using computer-generated imagery, animators will create fictional actors and maybe even render...
...country's 900,000 Russian immigrants. Several of the smaller fringe parties, such as the Pensioners' Party, may also join the coalition. All these groupings have their own agendas. Labor, for example, says it wants a negotiated peace with the Palestinians. Labor leader Amir Peretz said he is in favor of dismantling Jewish settlements in the West Bank. But this will cause pain among those of his supporters who remember that earlier Labor governments were responsible for building many of the West Bank settlements, where over 250,000 Jews now live. As Gerald Steinberg, head of the Program on Conflict...
...unless your name is Mohammed and you work inside a nuclear power plant. After we've reasserted control over the illegal population through enforcement, then we can have a debate about whether we legalize some of the people here or not. The public is already in favor of immigration enforcement. It's an élite commitment that's lacking. It's the business élite, Big Labor, Big Religion, Big Media, Big Academia, who are hostile to the very concept of immigration enforcement...