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...health, economic, and political problems that plague the continent. “You need to work with people on the ground,” Frazer said. “We need to see an African leader in the Oval Office.” Frazer said the establishment of the President??s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)—a $15 billion effort that she said has saved over 1.5 million lives—had lessons for future policies in the region. The active involvement of African leaders in developing and implementing the program was crucial...
...centrality of Memorial Church stems, instead, from the early 1920s, when university president??and renowned bigot—A. Lawrence Lowell first promoted the controversial idea of a new chapel as a memorial to graduates who had died fighting in World War I. Fervent protest quickly flared up in response. A 1921 editorial in The New York Times read that “a memorial to men of different sects shouldn’t be religious” and a 1931 editorial in The Crimson eloquently concluded, “To railroad through the University a War Memorial...
...course, uniting a diverse nation is probably an infeasible task. No president, at least in a democracy, has the ability to tell citizens what to believe. What is in the president??s power, however, is to challenge those who listen to him—but Obama is still too hesitant to do so. During a recent press conference, for example, he essentially dismissed a question from NBC correspondent Chuck Todd. Todd asked why, if past presidents had had the power to call for some form of sacrifice, Obama did not ask for something specific now, especially since...
...president??s politically safe response was that “folks are sacrificing left and right.” This expression of sympathy may be commendable, but it is not enough. The crisis does not justify not confronting our life styles. Due to subsidies to agribusinesses, we don’t bear the true costs of food; due to an irrational fear of nuclear power, we are dependent on foreign sources of energy. Ideally, these and other indefensible policies and approaches should be relegated to the trash piles we are so good at generating. If changing these policies...
...intriguing to me that so many find the opposition to Obama incomprehensible. My gut reaction to this dissent was disbelief: Notre Dame affiliates had a lot of nerve to protest the president??s appearance as I searched Matt Lauer on Wikipedia and prayed that I might still catch a glimpse of Michelle Obama (and her phenomenal biceps) at commencement. I can only hope that Steven Chu is equally toned...