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...Canada to Turkey, interest in this U.S. election season began months ago. Libraries of new books on American politics and political figures have been flying off the shelves in Japan and Italy. Friends of mine (not all of them political junkies) from Australia, India, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa and Britain have all sent me e-mails in recent weeks about the primaries and how exciting they are. My father has been interested in American politics since 1960 and says he has never seen this level of interest so early in the race. "There truly has been nothing like the Democratic...
...course, as the author proceeds to interview the good people of Switzerland, Bhutan, Qatar, Iceland, Moldova, Thailand, Great Britain, India and the U.S., he begins to acknowledge what he and all of us were aware of from the start: there is no single road to happiness. Heavy drinking, for instance, seems a benign diversion in Iceland but has ground Moldova to a depressed halt. The Swiss consistently say they are happy, but Weiner finds the country well run and well behaved to the point that two dogs he observes in a park one afternoon are "not on leashes...
...created an opportunity to resolve some of Kenya's fundamental problems. We now have a coalition government that was forced on the Kenyan political élite by the international community. Had it not been for the vigorous intervention of Kenya's neighbors, and of the wider world - particularly Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who worked the phones ceaselessly - the belligerents would not have set aside their differences. The upside of this is that the Kenyan crisis has empowered the region and the African Union to intervene robustly when things go badly wrong in an important member country. The downside...
...born to duty but without a purpose. Like Harry, he saw active service, back in 1982 in the Falklands. Like many family members, he's wont to express opinions at odds with wider public opinion (I once heard Andrew say that American culture has made no impact on Britain). Despite a long naval career and his more recent efforts as Britain's special representative for trade and investment, he has never quite shaken off his reputation as a playboy prince. The same fate threatened Harry until his star turn in the theater of war recast him as a hero...
...Currier House, and I thank the Khoshbins for their able leadership this year and for their combined service of over four decades to Harvard students,” Pilbeam said in a statement. Wrangham and Ross first came to the United States after living and being educated in Great Britain. A member of Harvard’s faculty since 1989, Wrangham has taught courses in human evolutionary biology and anthropology. Ross, whose academic background is in immunology, is the founder and executive director of the Kasiisi Project, a non-profit in western Uganda. Wrangham co-taught the Core class Science...