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...industrialized world or to more prosperous developing countries such as South Africa. But the poor in the developing world are determined not to diminish the little they have by sharing it with foreign migrants and, like many in the rich world, are erecting barriers to outsiders settling in their midst...
Even in the midst of a historic Democratic-primary race, there are some stories that cannot wait. I'm talking about Mark Thompson's groundbreaking investigative piece on the military's use of antidepressants for soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The story details what is really happening to the men and women waging war in our name. Antidepressants help many thousands of people, but is it acceptable that such drugs have become in many ways another tool of war, along with M-16s and body armor? The piece also touches on a larger policy issue: "If these wars...
...midst of a tumultuous year for U.S. financial markets, the nation’s most influential economic policy maker, Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75, will take a respite from his hectic schedule to address Harvard College’s graduating class at 2 p.m. today in Tercentanary Theatre. Bernanke, a former Winthrop House resident, is the keynote speaker at Class Day, a celebration for departing undergraduates that traditionally takes on a less formal tone than tomorrow’s Commencement exercises. After several consecutive years of Class Day speakers with comedic backgrounds, such as Conan...
...current financial news on the so-called “housing bubble.” Like the housing bubble, the Harvard bubble can easily breed complacency, until it bursts on Commencement Day, and we have to start thinking about mortgages. What a coincidence that we are in the midst of our own housing crisis on campus, one so serious that Harvard has banned college transfers for the 2008-2009 academic year and shrunk the incoming freshman class...
...requisite three hours alone that I find amazingly satisfying. Don’t get me wrong—I love my friends and, more broadly, human contact in more tangible forms than microphones and radio waves. Yet this forced loneliness offers some much-appreciated calm in the midst of the tumult of senior week social events and tearful roommate goodbye sessions...