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Strategies of military journalism must be reassessed in wake of the war in Iraq, a panel of journalists said at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night...
...Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a network of 15 law schools and faculties, joined with a professors’ group in September to file suit in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., claiming that the Pentagon’s threats infringed upon educators’ First Amendment rights...
Shipley currently works in Asia, which, in what she said was the necessary and inevitable process of globalization, will become the economic fulcrum of future decades. She chaired the Asia Pacific Economic Council in 1999 and will make a presentation on an Asian education initiative at the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan Dao, China later this month...
...raised a seemingly obvious point in the forum: some of the largest problems facing world health, such as AIDS and malnutrition, could be combated if global trade policies and U.S. foreign policy were adapted in order to prevent further impoverishment of poor countries. I asked Summers what he thought Harvard’s role should be to educate people about the matter, to which he responded that, although he wouldn’t defend every aspect of trade policies, he didn’t “actually think it is a plausible position that U.S. trade policies...
Later in the forum, a classmate asked what Harvard’s role should be in helping to create what Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul E. Farmer calls an “equity plan” for the distribution of technological advances. Summers responded by implying that my colleague lacked hope and was ungrateful, saying “there’s a tendency in this to defeatism and not recognizing the enormous amount of what is good that is happening in the world.... People think the Marshall Plan was really very good. The Marshall Plan provided Europe with...