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...position. The university’s deep financial crisis notwithstanding, I believe this is a time for Harvard to spend, and spend handsomely, in order to seize another opportunity to improve its international reach, quality of education, and commitment to its ideals. It is a well-known and documented problem that most of the funds that Harvard has are overseen by strict stipulations of how they can be spent. Neither the state of Massachusetts nor the lawyers of those who have donated to Harvard throughout the years are easy to please–but this is a unique time, when...
...comical desire to use soccer to fuel his fantasies of a successful musical career. “His secondary passion is his real passion,” Cuarón explained. “He has a talent for soccer but a passion for singing, and that is the problem.” “I knew I needed a rock and roll hit for this character,” he added. One unexpected result of the movie’s release is the popularity of García Bernal’s Spanish-language cover of Cheap Trick?...
...Doctors know a lot about alcohol problems and addiction to profitable street drugs, but they know little about anabolic steroids, they’re poorly understood,” he said. “This is an area where [the scientific community] needs to be educated as this problem comes over the horizon...
...it’s not just Israel’s problem. When it comes to the threat presented by a nuclear Iran, Israel’s and America’s interests are firmly in sync. The threat to Israel is obvious, and Israel is by far the United States’s strongest ally in the region and the most stable, prosperous, democratic, and advanced nation in that part of the world. But, in addition to that, the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapon would create a strong incentive for other Arab states to develop nuclear weapons. If Iran...
...public sector, politicians are risk-averse. They're afraid of trying something new because they might see a bad headline the next day. That's a problem." - on courage in public office, Time.com...