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...over three million people in the past year. Meanwhile, an estimated five million people contracted HIV, swelling the ranks of those currently living with the disease to 40 million. Whether these grim figures may be familiar or new to you, they inevitably remain too abstract to convey the destruction wrought by the disease in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the world. Though certainly jarring, the figures fail to describe both the demographics of the disease and the efforts being undertaken to combat...
...announced she wanted to marry a woman? The protocol boggles, but no problem. In Spain today that's fine, too. Even for someone like me, raised in a democracy and resident here for the past 15 years, it's hard to digest the speed and size of the changes wrought in Spain since Franco died. When I first visited in the late 1960s, driving around in a 1959 Hillman Husky shipped on the Southampton-Bilbao ferry, the tricornio-hatted Guardia Civil scared the churros out of me and my friends. Now, the Guardia address citizens as sir or madam, women...
Would a little decency really cripple this University? It didn’t in 2001. A raise of similar proportions wrought none of the disaster prophesied by the true believers of Ec10 orthodoxy. Employment of custodial workers has remained steady, because Harvard needs the work they...
...make to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The end of the matching-funds drive comes exactly one week after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Kashmir, killing an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 people. But although the earthquake has created a humanitarian crisis that dwarfs even the devastation that Katrina wrought along the Gulf Coast, Harvard has chosen to value lives in Louisiana and Mississippi above those in Pakistan and India. This is not the University’s first attempt to play the role of freelance philanthropist. In September 2001, Harvard pledged $1 million to fund scholarships for the children...
...praise where praise is due. We are happy to note the collective response of Harvard’s faculties—and the numerous other universities nationwide—to the devastation wrought by Katrina’s cruel gales. Any exertions Harvard makes on behalf of Hurricane Katrina’s victims will necessarily look meager next to the billions of dollars that will be spent to save, salvage, and resurrect New Orleans in the coming months and years. Nonetheless, each invaluable life which Harvard rescues from painful disruption or utter ruin represents a laudable success and makes...