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...conflict resolution efforts should be applied to other conflicts involving Islam like the Isreali-Palestinian conflict, Bruderlein said. The founding of the Peace Lab comes at a time when small conflict resolution organizations are revolutionizing diplomatic efforts. During the recent political standoff in Kenya, Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General, and a small Swiss organization, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, resolved the political crisis independent of official efforts, “Small organizations that don’t draw huge attention can have a huge impact on the negotiating process,” said Hirji, the Harvard research assistant...
With Wall Street going off the cliff, and housing prices still declining in many areas, both spending and lending are being squeezed all across the country. Consumer lending contracted last month--that's practically un-American. Car dealers may fold by the hundreds, as customers can't get credit to buy and manufacturers won't finance dealer inventories. Holiday-shopping forecasts are getting bleaker. Declining home values mean more homeowners could default, further driving down property values. All that crimps tax revenues, and states such as Pennsylvania and New York are now trying to plug gaping holes in their budgets...
...campus are definitely involved in,” says Alexander J. Berman ’10, a member of The Harvard Advocate’s poetry board. “There is a clutch of people, of interested poets, who are in workshops.” But for the un-published portion of this clutch, there remains little means of creative cultivation, and Davis represents a beacon of hope for the future of poetry on the Harvard campus. Thomas Horrocks, the associate librarian for collections at Houghton, is excited to have been a part of the board that appointed...
...brittle rehash of the stale conservative robot-rhetoric gags, or a softball jabbing of an administration that most liberal humorists have all but canonized already. Folks like Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, who have flourished under the current administration, now find themselves in a perplexing and significantly un-funny dilemma: a risky change or more of the same.Luckily, after the map has been rent all asunder and our nation bleeds red and blue again, we’ll still be able to look toward the horizon for another installment from Sarah Vowell. Vowell, a humorist and contributing editor for public...
...This lack of faith in government initiatives runs wide and deep, which partially explains the huge response Teach India has evoked from young professionals like Iyer. Run by the Times of India, one of India's leading English-language dailies, in collaboration with UN Volunteers, the program has already received over 100,000 applications from would-be volunteers and is struggling to accommodate them all. "Such a visionary and large-scale program has only been possible because we've been able to get the media, civil society and corporate sector together," says Adeline Aubry, a former UNV program officer under...