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There's a big problem, of course. As Chayes says, "expanding in an active theater of war is an increasingly tricky notion." At the moment, Arghand relies on the generosity of the Canadian army, which lets Chayes use its post office for shipping. A commercial air-freight service, she says, would give a huge boost to the growing number of Afghan traders who want to export. It's a classic catch-22: freight companies shy away from Afghanistan because it's so unstable, but stability will come only when Afghanistan's economy improves, which will require more investment, such...
...it’s to talk about economic fairness. We have a problem in this society, and it’s not just America. Economic growth in recent years has been accompanied by much more inequality than previously. And you need inequality in a capitalist system, when I talk about equality as a general rule, but there’s too much inequality. I think the Democrats should focus on public policies that deal with this excessive inequality...
...Right, a guy wanted to, but he couldn’t get enough signatures to get on the ballot. But the problem is for the Republicans—the national Republican Party to move so far to the right—it makes it very hard for anybody to compete for Congress here...
...making sure students can afford to come to Harvard was not HFAI’s only concern. A far more difficult problem would be to make sure that these students would feel comfortable at Harvard where social and cultural differences, stemming from but not limited to economic factors, may abound. And the Horatio Alger-esque myth of students skyrocketing into a world of privilege the moment they enter Harvard’s gates might not prove true for many who come from disadvantaged backgrounds...
...risky to be up-front,” Bhatia said. “But we really felt that our number-one priority was to solve our two-body problem well, meaning that we both had jobs that we were excited about individually...