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...levels would leave the country better able to cope with challenges, Townsend said, creating a “culture of preparedness.” She stressed the creation of preparedness campaigns akin to “Stop, Drop, and Roll” and “Buckle Up America?? in order to increase the public’s disaster readiness. And in response to an audience member’s question, Townsend denied that a constant concern with preparedness would keep Americans in a state of terror. “Preparation is the antidote to fear...
...immigrant movement, because it forces many leaders into debating within parameters that radically limit potential gains. Undocumented workers are portrayed in ways that indicate their “American” values and are forced to drop their own flags for that of an adopted patria. “America?? is depicted as a dreamland, practically paved with gold, while the average undocumented immigrants slave away, heartbroken after separation from their family and surroundings. Even the eyes of the most prosperous immigrants light up at the mention of their homeland, which has been left behind as they stay...
Lewis Bollard’s piece on “America??s Shaky Ambassadors” (op-ed, Apr. 26) rightly identifies the problem of underqualified U.S. representatives. But Robert Tuttle—America??s ambassador to the United Kingdom—is wrongly included among them...
...world-renowned practitioner. “Dr. Farmer is a leading advocate for changing health policy and rethinking funding priorities to help the poor,” she said. Farmer started working in rural Haiti as a medical student in 1983. Last year, he was named as one of America??s 25 Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report for his work to bring medical attention and care to those who would otherwise receive nothing. Javier J. Castro ’09, a member of the Harvard AIDS Coalition, said he wasn’t surprised...
Lewis Bollard’s opinion piece (“America??s Shaky Ambassadors,” op-ed, Apr. 26) makes some useful points about the perils of political appointments. It is true (and sad) that the U.S. is the only country in the world besides the Philippines that regularly assigns its largest embassies to party loyalists...