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...city, it looks like Miami," says bus user Agustin Romero, 26, as he leans against the window and points up at the shimmering glass towers of downtown Panama. "But you don't see these buses in Miami." And getting rid of the demon buses has become an infernal task for the government. The current administration's plan to indemnify bus owners $25,000 each to remove their buses from the road and replace them with modern new buses got tangled up in conflicts of interests that made it all the way to Panama's Supreme Court. So far, the government...
...talking about how he didn’t believe in quota systems, he was using quota systems for distributing money in Texas,” Haney says. These systems—which allocate state funds based on the number of convictions made by the state’s drug task force—are indirectly responsible for the heroine’s conviction in “American Violet.” But Haney insists that “American Violet” will transcend its moral and political content. “One of the challenges of filmmaking...
...task of reviving Harvard boxing—once required of all College students during World War II—was not without its hurdles, including securing the approval of the administration, the Recreational Club Sports program, and University Health Services...
...graduating class have doubtless pondered the ultimate meaning of their hard-earned diplomas. For 17-odd years in the classroom, success has been relatively easy to define: Good work is, in theory, awarded with good grades; the higher the grade, the more consummately the student has achieved her task. Quantified through its positioning in an alphabetical hierarchy, academic success is seemingly straightforward. Yet, once we depart from the academic bubble, the only quantitative measure available to translate the abstract concept of success into an intelligible form is money. Rather than engaging in the overwhelming process of defining success on their...
...Arts Task Force Report observed in December, Harvard classes tend to emphasize looking at art rather than making and presenting it. According to Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museum, the Student Art Show will further the Task Force’s mission to improve the status of art on campus...