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This year’s Cultural Ryhthms show will feature performances by the Harvard Phillipine Forum, Harvard Wushu, and the Harvard Lithuanian Club, as well as a host of others...
...continue to be relatively robust. The developed world, to paraphrase British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's 1957 proclamation to his countrymen, has rarely had it so good. Why, then, are so many economists so nervous? When TIME's annual Board of Economists round table met during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month, the discussion focused less on what is going right in the global economy than on what's wrong--and how serious...
...pithy demonstration that perhaps captured the purpose of the whole production. As a forum for expressing a wide range of opinions and attitudes, Vagina Monologues is a hands-down success. Each of the 20 skits has something different to say about a topic that even college students rarely talk about—and if they did talk about it, they wouldn’t manage to cover half as much territory as this show packs into two hours...
...forgotten that deep differences remain. Last week, the Kyoto protocol on climate change came into effect without the support of America, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases. The International Criminal Court, which the E.U. considers an ideal forum to deal with the slaughter in Darfur, is opposed by the U.S. And major disagreements persist over how best to stymie Iran's apparent intention to develop nuclear weapons, whether to lift the arms embargo on China, whether to sanction Syria for occupying Lebanon and aiding Iraqi insurgents and Hezbollah terrorists, and whether Europe should brand Hezbollah itself a terrorist...
...Importing Knowledge Re your report on the Davos World Economic Forum [Jan. 31]: Those who defend economic globalization against the charge that it makes rich countries poor often refer to the reasoning of economist Jagdish Bhagwati and his colleagues. They maintain that it is not realistic to assume that globalization will take high-end jobs away from rich countries. Supporters of globalization say it is not probable for China or India to suddenly develop a huge number of workers with sophisticated and complex skills because the educational sectors in those countries face enormous difficulties. One of the advantages of globalization...