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...outnumbered Republicans prepare for a night of watching election results in hostile territory. They sit down with their laptops, McCain-Palin buttons, and cold pizza, hoping for a major upset. The sounds of cheering Obama fans at the Election Night Party in the adjacent JFK Jr. Forum are only somewhat muted. But the prospects of an upset grow dimmer as the projection screen in front of the room reports one blue state after another. For Colin J. Motley ’10, President of the HRC, the tendency of exit polls to exaggerate offers some hope, but overall things...
...Global Gender Gap Report World Economic Forum; 181 pages
...just about equality anymore. A country's economy, health and productivity increase as its gender gap narrows, according to the authors of this study published by the World Economic Forum, the Swiss non-profit that hosts an annual meeting in Davos of world political and business leaders. The study was co-authored by researchers from Harvard and University of California-Berkeley and surveys conditions for the sexes in 130 countries, encompassing more than 90% of the world's population. Nations are scored on how much progress they've made in the areas of jobs, education, politics and health...
President-elect Barack Obama’s use of the Internet and his focus on the youth vote have transformed the way campaigns are run, according to four Institute of Politics fellows who spoke at the Forum on Monday night. The event, moderated by Institute of Politics Director Bill P. Purcell, focused on what made Obama’s campaign victorious and the future Obama administration. “The youth vote went three to one for Obama, higher than ever before,” said Jennifer Donahue, a political reporter who directs the New Hampshire Institute of Politics...
...Canada withstood the subprime tornado better than other countries, and should the Canadian banking system be a model for G-7 and G-20 leaders when they gather in Washington on Nov. 15? Consider that the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, an influential think tank whose annual conference attracts the likes of Bill Gates and Tony Blair, earlier this month ranked Canada's banking system as the soundest in the world. The U.S. came in at No. 40, and Germany and Britain ranked 39 and 44, respectively. (Switzerland was No. 16, just ahead of Namibia.) "For Canadian banks, having higher...