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...third largest trading partner, would have sunk America's foundering influence in the region. Instead, when Bush arrives in the Yucat�n on March 12 for a summit with Calder�n to discuss the hemispheric issue most urgent to the U.S.--illegal immigration--his host will be a rare ideological soulmate in America's backyard...
...fiscal year that ended in March 2006, on sales of $28.2 billion, and $1.62 billion for the first three-quarters of the current one, an increase of 31%. Those results have been built on regained passenger confidence, the allure of Paris as an international hub and an increasingly rare commitment to high-quality, free in-flight service, which have boosted ticket sales enough to lift Air France--KLM to the top of Europe's airlines, with a 25% market share. And it might make a run at ailing Alitalia, whose fractious workforce resembles that of Air France in its dark...
Ryan M. McCaffrey ’07, editor of the Salient, says women in top positions are rare: Only a few females are listed in the masthead. “Men have always outnumbered women, there’s no question about that,” he says. “It’s just not something that women are interested in. They’re not interested in power, I don’t think. It seems almost unnatural for there to be an equal number of women in those positions...
...It’s rare to encounter such a clear breach in the Harvard bubble. Most of us seem to refer to the “bubble” as if it were some geographical feature of Harvard Square. But it is as much mental as physical. We make conscious choices every day to protect ourselves by ignoring: We skip over the horrors of another article about more carnage in Iraq, or gingerly step around destitute homeless people in Harvard square. This willful ignorance grows out of a Harvard culture that makes it too easy to lose a sense...
Here at Harvard, the Lampoon, a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, has its own vaunted prank tradition. Although of late its pranks are rare, small in scope, and bereft of any real ingenuity, in its heyday members were responsible for a number of shrewdly cunning acts of civil disobedience...