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Speaking just as a Harvard parent and a loyal Harvard alumnus, I think both the editorial (“In Safe Hands”) and the dissenting opinion (“Stop Matching Donations”) of Oct. 18 fail to identify the main reason why it is inappropriate for Harvard to donate to charities providing relief to the victims of natural disasters. Harvard really has no money of its own. It is merely the trustee for money given or paid to it for education and research, and funds resulting from reinvestment of such gifts and payments—funds...
...Nuclear energy still faces big obstacles, primarily the still-hostile public opinion in some countries and the unresolved problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste that will continue to be radioactive for hundreds of years. Says Lars Josefsson, chief executive of the big Swedish utility Vattenfall: "It will continue to be a very difficult question especially in Europe, as many governments have taken very strong decisions in the past against nuclear...
Five Middle East experts discussed the roots of Arab public opinion toward the U.S.—and the “clash of misperceptions” between America and the Arab world since September 11—at the Kennedy School of Government’s John F. Kennedy, Jr., Forum yesterday. Former American Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine moderated the panel, which included veteran pollster John Zogby, University of Maryland Professor for Peace and Development Shibley Telhami, Pakistani journalist Beena Sarwar, and Jordanian diplomat Jafar Hassan. Zogby opened the discussion by presenting recent polls that gauged attitudes toward...
...won’t deny that Pitchfork sometimes sways my opinion one way or the other—it took me a bit longer to come around to the new Beck album than it may have, had the Fork reviewer described it as great—but ultimately, people tend to go on listening to music that they like and making their own judgments on it. They merely have a way to find additional music that might interest them...
...Faculty Council’s really trying to help move this forward. I’m sure there are a lot of differences of opinion about particular details, but we don’t want things to drag on,” Ulrich said...