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Early this summer, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 asked a task force—including Associate Dean of the College Georgene Herschbach, Director of the Committee on Education Abroad John H. Coatsworth, Harvard College Professor Jorge I. Dominguez, Edwards, a representative from the General Counsel, a student, and others—to reevaluate Harvard’s travel policy...
With the recent advances in terrorist communication, security agencies now face the formidable task of sifting through what Atran called “misinformation” in order to extract valid facts...
...Nancy M. Barry, MBA ’75, ran task forces at the World Bank until 1990, when she took over the philanthropic Women’s World Bank...
...poorest areas of the country? Will we allow our kids to be bused in an effort to desegregate our nation’s schools and force education to become everybody’s problem? Asking parents to sacrifice, in effect, the advantage their children currently have is a difficult task, but if we truly believe in equal rights, we should care enough about every child to give them all the same opportunities that we all want for our own. Hurricane Katrina may have changed the way we think about poverty, but if we actually care, donating to the Red Cross...
...Harvard’s inability so far to turn these conversations into an appointment of a new HMC chief has highlighted the difficult task of filling a position that attracts intense outside scrutiny over issues like compensation...