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...think he laid out some intriguing proposals, although I wish he had given a fuller description of the system of social enterprise he proposed,” said Guy Stuart, an associate professor of public policy who specializes in microfinance at the Kennedy School of Government...
Although none of us was actually alive during this golden age of true elegance, we pine for it no less strenuously, and wish HUDS would devote its superfluous expenditures to recreating Harvard’s classic gold coast experience rather than to installing newfangled machines. If we’re to truly honor the second Gilded Age in which we live, HUDS should put away the television monitors and kiosks and break out the gold leafing and bowties...
...don’t wish such a natural disaster on anyone, nor a costly insurance premium hike. But I’m beginning to think that that’s what it will take for Americans to internalize in their hearts, minds, and wallets—where it really counts—that global warming is a real process, driving freakish, real events. I dare say, that would make them demand change and act to bring it about...
...work that reaches for epic but falls short. It is a work that aspires to examine the big universal themes: love, war, religion. It tells the story of men (and one woman) who can never escape the war they were caught in, who are eventually consumed by it, or wish they were. It tries to communicate truth, but the truth is too deeply hidden by its own attempts at complexity. Yes, “Tree of Smoke” is most definitely trying to say something urgent about the human condition, but that message remains lost, obfuscated by itself, obfuscated...
...training. It's for internal use only, for official use only. You can imagine, for security reasons, if you understood exactly every detail of how the intelligence community works and the details of our operations on a very granular basis during an incident of national significance, those who wish to do us harm could use that information against...