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...autonomous and the advising needs of students across concentrations differ so much. The council must urge Harvard to create an annual guide that evaluates concentrations in a manner similar to the CUE Guide. To address the inadequacies of concentration advising, we need to bring to the public forum honest information about each concentration. This will foster an exchange of ideas, put pressure on concentrations to shape up, and may also help first-years make informed decisions about which concentration is the best place for each of them to pursue their passions...
...compound in the nearby town of Suan Phung, they soon found themselves exchanging bewildered stares with Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai and a dozen of Thailand's top generals. As Chuan inspected his prizes, he gently stroked the boys' lice-ridden locks. "He totally demystified them," says Sunai Phasuk, of Forum Asia, a human-rights group. In Thailand, where people still crawl before royalty, "you don't pat a god on the head...
...Still, thanks to the Web, all is not lost. The World Economic Forum itself maintains an excellent site chock-full of the day's proceedings and a wide range of perspectives on the most contentious issues. Choice quote from Day 1: The observation by Tanzania's president that if everyone on Earth lived like suburban Americans, the planet's resources would have already been exhausted...
...content to be a passive spectator, you have two alternatives: You could hop a flight down to Brazil's Porto Alegre for the rival World Social Forum, a gathering of globalization's discontents featuring the likes of French farmer Jose Bove, best known for his renovation-by-tractor of a French McDonald's outlet to protest imports of U.S. beef. The guys at Davos go skiing between sessions; the Porto Alegre crowd prefer something a little more active - on their first night, 1,000 activists occupied a local Monsanto laboratory to protest genetically modified food...
...There's something more than a little surreal about the World Economic Forum's annual get-together in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, which opened on Thursday. Davos is a conspiracy theorist's dream. Its participants - scores of heads of state and senior ministers, representatives of 1,000 of the world's biggest corporations and an eclectic assortment of economists, social critics, writers, artists and thinkers - may reflect an unparalleled concentration of political and economic power, and yet the event has no formal mandate or decision-making power. In fact, it's not even strictly a conference...