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...reach the needy. Nursjabani Kacasungkana, head of the Indonesian Women's Coalition, and 28 other organizations have accused local officials of misappropriating 40% of the city's flood-prevention funds and issuing building permits in violation of zoning regulations. "Unlike earthquakes and hurricanes, water can be managed if the proper steps are taken," says Nursjabani. "It's not like this is a new phenomenon...
...course, this wouldn’t be a proper column if I didn’t have a suggestion for whom Summers should pick. Why not choose a person with unparalleled academic credentials, combined with a long history of administrative success? Someone with a passion for interdisciplinary work, for making connections between departments? Someone who has already been called upon to enforce excellence when a certain department was spiraling out of control...
Much of Finley’s lecture was spent going over the art that she has produced in the last two decades. Many of Finley’s friends died of AIDS in the ’80s, and she believes that the taboo associated with homosexuality denied them proper funerals. And so she decided to initiate her own funerary pageants. “Written in Sand” is about the process of mourning. Viewers enter a candle-lit room and write the names of loved ones who have died of AIDS in sand on the ground...
Harvard tuition is expensive, but student life extracts even a higher price from the annointed few in Harvard’s highest social echelons. The cost of club dues, cover at the right nightspots and the proper attire can be exorbitant. As a public service to aspiring socialites, FM presents this buyer’s guide to glitter and popularity at Harvard...
...matter how many grades instructors have at their disposal, those grades are useless to students if no one agrees on their meaning. Individual TFs, professors and departments are forced to guess at the proper meaning of inflated grades. One TF’s A-minus may be another TF’s A or B-plus. In lieu of clear standards across the Faculty and even across TFs in the same course, interpreting a grade can be as challenging as earning it in the first place...