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...businesses, some said the decision would be an inconvenience for them. Michelle M. Gittens, a student at Harvard Extension School, said she was displeased with the decision. “Right now, it’s frustrating,” she said. Gittens, who parks in Harvard Square about twice a week to attend classes, said that public transportation is “unreliable” for the hours when she is required to travel to and from her home in Mattapan, Mass. While the decision may be unpopular, Jillson said she thinks it will not prevent people from getting...
...July 2004 he jumped too, from U.S. Airways to Dubai-based Emirates. His new company provides him with a freshly pressed uniform and a chauffeur-driven car to each flight. Murray has twice the vacation time (42 days), guaranteed annual raises and a benefits package that has lured more than 100 U.S. pilots to Emirates over the past four years. One-third of the 23 former U.S. Airways pilots at Emirates had the option to return when the airline recalled them from furlough after the cuts in 2004. Only one did. "It's just not worth it," Murray says. "Employees...
...public policy that takes into account the odd realities of human behavior, like the deep and unthinking tendency to conform, even in areas--like energy consumption--where conformity is irrelevant. For 30 years, Thaler has documented the ways people act illogically: we eat more from larger plates, care twice as much about losing money as about gaining it, fret over rare events like plane crashes instead of common ones like car accidents. That research underpins Nudge's argument that as policymakers go about their jobs--whether regulating the mortgage industry or organizing food in school cafeterias--they should design programs...
...Olympic flame is extinguished, and the victorious athletes return home, China will return to its abusive ways. Almost 75 years after our initial failure to stand against totalitarianism in the Olympics, we are about to be fall for the same trick. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame...
...finally responded in the beginning of the second half with three goals in a row. But the comeback was short-lived as Harvard fired in five more before the end of the game. Although the Crimson came out on top, the team committed 24 fouls in the game, over twice as many as Vermont’s 10. Harvard also had 21 total turnovers, one of the highest counts of the season. “We just weren’t playing smart,” Curtis said. “We weren’t taking care...