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...Harvard Democrats are just one of the many student groups whose sites are hosted by HCS. Other groups include Harvard Hillel, Harvard Model Congress, and Harvard Black Men’s Forum...
...upbeat forecast--albeit with some significant caveats--emerged from a lively discussion of TIME's Board of Economists at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "The outlook is for another Goldilocks kind of year," is how Laura D'Andrea Tyson, dean of the London Business School and a former White House economist, summed...
...China's continuing boom and its uneasy economic relationship with the U.S. was a central preoccupation of this year's World Economic Forum. "This locomotive has changed the whole structure of the global economy," said Zhu. "The U.S. and Japan are no longer the global-growth engine." At the end of last year, China officially adjusted the size of its economy in an attempt to better reflect the plethora of activity taking place that wasn't counted in previous, Soviet-style central-planning statistics. The upshot was a 16.8% increase in gross domestic product that pushed China's economy past...
...forum, sponsored by the Harvard College Interfaith Council, came as death tolls mounted in worldwide riots sparked by the Muhammad cartoons. According to the Associated Press, 19 people have died in cartoon-related violence so far this month—including 11 in Afghanistan and five in Pakistan...
...topic distinct from the focus of his study group. “I think I need to know more about the Middle East,” Cooper said, and plans to attend a course on the history of the Middle East and one on Caribbean literature. Students attending the forum expressed excitement about these Fellows and their study groups. Genna A. Ableman ’09 said she was interested in Felzenberg’s bipartisan cooperation group because the topic is “really relevant.” —Staff writer Emily J. Nelson...