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With money and power comes temptation, as evidenced by the (now former) New York state governor and some (now former) Bear Stearns executives. But in the case of the Chinese government, stubbornly authoritarian in the political sphere, yet amazingly successful economically, temptations are much more dangerous...
...young people we are inextricably tied to this war. Some of us are fighting on the front lines. All of us will bear the debt of this war well into our adulthood. We have developed our worldviews as our government has waged occupation and torture abroad. And together we will search to find meaning and progress as we begin to stumble our way out of Iraq. As young people, this...
...half were under 23. Many of us were too young to fight when the war began. We must recognize what it means to spend our days in classrooms, not in combat. As a generation, we are accountable to each other, and whether we are students or soldiers, we will bear the burden of this war together. We must remember that this war continues...
...former Treasury secretary also devoted much of his prepared speech to a discussion of the country’s current economic turmoil—in particular, yesterday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to lend up to $30 billion to JPMorgan Chase to absorb floundering investment bank Bear Sterns. Summers said that the takeover was “as dramatic an episode for the U.S. financial system as we’ve had” since the stock market crash of 1987, but he called the decision “appropriate.” Summers criticized current Treasury...
...enter the sixth year of combat, Harvard students should realize that each month we continue in Iraq will eventually cost them $25 billion. The question is whether today’s young people are willing to bear that price...