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...leading to political violence aimed at the poor, warned John M. Sheffield II ’09, during a presentation on police brutality in South America yesterday evening. The discussion focused on the two summers Sheffield spent in Buenos Aires, working with the Argentinean human rights group La Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre, as well as researching his thesis there. Sheffield, who is an undergraduate associate and research fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, emphasized how “political polarization” between the rich and the poor in Buenos Aires also...
While these times are scary and strange for many Americans, a number of people in other countries feel a sense of deja vu. Asia went through a similar crisis in the late 1990s, and various other countries (including Argentina, Turkey, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Indonesia and South Korea) have suffered through banking crises, stock-market collapses and credit crunches...
...looking at the future, when U.S. companies will be competing not only with European, Japanese, South Korean and Chinese companies but also with highly competitive companies from every corner of the world: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and places you'd never expect. And you can anticipate that future versions of the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index will be reflecting more rapid ascents and descents than it has in the past. The current financial crisis may only serve to speed up the process...
...going to be a comeback, it will be through managing the current economic crisis," says Greenberg. Pressed to name leaders who have rebounded from such a low ebb, Greenberg cited Margaret Thatcher, who was widely unpopular until she dispatched British troops to win back the Falkland Islands from Argentina. "What Gordon needs is a small war," he joked. There are none in sight, but - odd though it may sound - economic woes may yet give him some respite from the mutiny within his own ranks...
...able to demonstrate moments of humor and human insight. Nevertheless, I had only read a limited amount of Welty and wanted to get to know her more intimately, so I picked up “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty” when I got back from Argentina this summer. Argentine culture and literature are strongly linked to its landscape, and perhaps it’s because of the time I spent there that I noticed more acutely the way in which Welty’s stories unfold in such specific landscapes. I had always loved her characters...