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Child, an economics concentrator from Pasadena, Calif., and Lowell House, is a news writer and has been an operations manager on the business board since February. He will assume the president??s post at the start of the spring semester...
...Valerie Jarrett, a co-chair of the president-elect’s transition project, indicated last week that this might indeed be the case. She confirmed that the Obama administration would be adding a new Office of Urban Policy to the president??s catalog of administrative agencies. No doubt the complex problems facing the country’s urban cores would benefit from incisive new methodological approaches, and the Obama administration should be commended for taking these problems seriously. It is unclear, however, whether this is possible if we continue to index cities’ troubles as strictly...
...what if it was? Even The Economist has raised the idea that the whole world should have a say in the U.S. Presidential election, presumably because the American President??s decisions have such a huge impact across the globe.3 It is a far-fetched proposal but an interesting thought. Take this, for example: In 1968, America chose Richard Nixon as president. In 1971, despite Congressional objections, Nixon actively provided arms, ammunition, and political cover to the Pakistani Government while it carried out what an American official in Dhaka described as “genocide” in present...
...making him the highest-profile Harvard affiliate to do so.Summers’ battle with the Faculty reached its breaking point at a Feb. 7, 2006 faculty meeting, when engineering professor Frederick H. Abernathy, who had never previously addressed the Faculty during Summers’ tenure, questioned the University president??s involvement in a national scandal that implicated one of Summers’ close friends and colleagues in Harvard’s economics department.In the early 1990s, Andrei Shleifer had been the Russian project director for the Harvard Institute for International Development, which received funding from...
...most formidable rival has been flexing its muscle lately, first in Georgia and perhaps soon in Ukraine. The Russian economy may stand on shaky foundations, but the government of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has developed a taste for the international spotlight. Despite the Russian president??s tough stance on the U.S. in his state-of-the-country address the morning after Obama’s election, the Kremlin described the first Obama-Medvedev talk on Saturday as a “constructive and positive interaction,” whatever that means...