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This year, many students at Harvard watched as the financial crisis of last fall spiraled into one of the deepest recessions in living memory. But aside from the grim economic news, this past year has also brought with it a whole host of new international opportunities, controversies, and celebrations. The...
High infant mortality, low life expectancy, soaring health-care costs - the symptoms are numerous and the diagnosis unmistakable: America's health-care system is ailing. But like a patient who coughs or limps his way through an illness, the U.S. has often been reluctant to look for help.
The COP was set up last fall as part of legislation that gave the Treasury Department permission to spend $700 billion to rescue the nation's ailing financial system. The panel, which is headed by Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren, has no legislative or official regulatory powers. It is supposed...
If it remains "unchanged," it's because the North hasn't given Obama even the slimmest reed on which to hang an alteration in policy. Is it possible that today's nuclear test will finally convince diplomats that the North Korea they see is the one they get; that perhaps...
And then there is Boyle, the youngest of nine children, deprived of oxygen at birth, bullied in school, living what seemed an airless life with her cat, Pebbles. When she auditioned for a TV talent show in 1995--in the age of arrogance and affluence--she was scorned. So she...