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...services. One concern for Apple might be that the growing popularity of Google's mobile e-mail and calendar programs could reduce interest in Apple's own such offerings. But Apple already gives that software away for free, so the competition isn't likely to pose a lasting problem...
...Some problems transcend generations. At Harvard, one such problem is finding love...
...through a subcommittee chaired by Jerry Goldberg ’57, administered a college-wide survey about overcrowding in the Houses, tutorials and classes. The survey results, compiled in a report entitled “Growth and Development of Harvard College,” showed that the most serious problem lay within the Houses, as 71 percent of respondents felt that the Houses were overcrowded. In addition, the report highlighted problems springing from the overcrowding, including a lack of student-faculty contact and feelings of isolation among students...
Unfortunately, a housing shortage was not the only problem the College had to confront. Pusey also stressed the need for increased salaries for professors, an area in which the College was losing its previously “unchallenged lead to which no small part of Harvard’s present greatness may be attributed.” In a report to the Class of 1930 given by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences McGeorge Bundy in 1955, he wrote that professorial salaries have not been able to keep up with the rises in cost of living. According...
What are the risks? There is the problem with Syria. They consider that it is a threat against their regime. If I want to please this, and please that, I am not going to please anybody. I tell my own people that there are certain principles that are worth [holding] fast and trying to defend them. Otherwise, everybody can dare to slap us on the face. We have to prove that this is a country, this is a sovereign state, this is an independent one, we [want the state to prevail] all over Lebanon, and... having a democratic and free...