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...think of itself more like a government than an individual or a business firm. With its reputation and available funds, the university is not going anywhere, but delaying improvements will have dismal effects on future endowment performance. The current global economic crisis is being fought by governments from South Africa to Japan with counter-cyclical measures that attempt to hasten the move from recession to growth. The now-revived Keynesian approach justifies the deep temporary deficits with the promise of future growth. The same applies to Harvard, for the endowment will continue to grow–and receive fresh funds?...
...years of existence of atomic weapons, only 10 nations have actually built them, eight of which were during the Cold War and one of which later gave up its weapons (South Africa). Clearly, the non-proliferation strategies employed to this date are working fairly well. The development of an Iranian nuclear weapon, then, could double the number of nuclear-armed nations in a small fraction of that time, representing a major setback for the prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons. This would mark a return to a Cold War-like era in which a danger of nuclear...
...There is no cloud above my head--there is not even a mist.' JACOB ZUMA, presidential candidate in South Africa, after corruption charges against him were dropped before the April 22 elections...
...Condoms,” column, April 16), the impression was given that the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies decided to end the AIDS Prevention Research Project, of which I am director, in response to my recent, controversial comments which questioned condoms as the panacea for AIDS in Africa. That is not the case. Our project is not being continued, but it has been extended beyond its original end-date on a no-cost extension basis...
...occur every day. A shortage of internet connections and affordable computers leaves many Iraqis outside the wired world. Also, a lack of websites in Arabic poses problems for many in Iraq and the broader Middle East. Ahmed Hamzawi, Google's head of engineering for the Middle East and north Africa, said less than 1% of content on the Internet is in Arabic, even though the language is one of the most widely spoken in the world. "We actually are looking at the lack of Arabic content as an issue across the whole region," said Hamzawi. "One thing that's going...