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...HIID grew out of the work of Harvard's Development Advisory Service (1962-1974), and earlier projects involving Harvard advisors in international development. The institute itself was created in 1974 to coordinate Harvard's program for assistance, training, and research in the developing world. The institute had 20 overseas offices and 25 more international programs headquartered in Cambridge and an annual budget of over $34 million--more than some of Harvard's graduate schools. Unwieldy and hard to manage, HIID had been tarnished in recent years by allegations of scandal and corruption in Russia...
...much of the evolving technology, in particular, is an infrastructure for non-zero-sum games--from the Silk Road, which eased mutually profitable exchange, to the Internet, which lets you play more games with more people than ever before. Meanwhile, social complexity has grown, just as organic complexity grew via biological evolution...
...Relations particularly deteriorated in the early '70s, after the Nixon administration aligned Washington closely with India's archrival, Pakistan, as part of its efforts to outflank the Soviets and improve ties with China (which had a long-running border dispute with India). Pakistan's importance as a Washington ally grew after 1980, when the country became the staging ground for U.S. efforts to assist Afghan resistance fighters against the Soviet invaders...
Every seven years since 1963, England has sat for its group portrait. A dozen seven-year-olds chosen then, and revisited in documentaries as they grew up, express the nation's cheerful willingness to settle for less than the big dream. (At least, that's what they say on camera. The Brits have such lovely manners, don't they?) A few have lived abroad, but all remain captives of a society still largely defined by class. Apted, whose films include Coal Miner's Daughter and The World Is Not Enough, has the storytelling skills to weave a powerful and poignant...
...Morris first grew interested in film while working on a graduate degree in History and Philosophy of Science at Berkeley. He describes "obsessively, compulsively" attending movies at the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley's on-campus film repository, and becoming interested in the way the medium could be used to communicate the sorts of ideas he had been dealing with through other means. From there, he went on to work on several projects for the German director Werner Herzog before going on to make his own first film, a feat which Herzog commemorated by publicly eating his own shoe. Morris...