Word: problems
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...contrast, at Harvard you can almost always fit into a community as you are. I’ve spent quite a bit of time reflecting on whether and how my life would have been different if I had traded in my hours in lab and long nights perfecting problem sets to fit in with any given social set. Now, as a senior, I realize that it certainly would be different, but probably not for the better...
...many different stories came to a head this week! FlyBy loved all the confrontations. We enjoyed the “empowerment” theme, too, but we’re unsure about the show’s handling of minorities. This has been a problem from the beginning: Kurt’s coming out, for example, was handled with surprising respect. But are we to read Mr. Ryerson as a villainous pedophile or as an offensive gay stereotype? “Throwdown” addresses these issues with mixed results, succeeding in being considerate yet funny, but failing to deepen...
...made him unpopular among Israel's noisy neoconservative and Evangelical supporters. But there are others, including well-known supporters of Israel like David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who think a breakthrough is possible. Makovsky's idea is to start with what seems the toughest problem: the Israeli settlements. "It is actually possible to work out a land swap that would satisfy both sides," he says. "I've done the maps: a 4% land swap would do it. Eighty percent of Israeli settlers live on 5% of the West Bank. You could give the Palestinians some...
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...expensive these projects are, the BTC oil pipeline linking Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, through Tbilisi, Georgia, to Turkey's Caspian port of Ceyhan cost $4 billion to build in the early 2000s.) "Gazprom has been looking to get into the Chinese market for a considerable time, but the problem has always been over agreeing on the price," says Julian Lee, a senior energy analyst for the Center for Global Energy Studies in London. "There is no indication that they have done this this time." While the high-profile announcement this week of a new framework indicates support for a deal...