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...Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has received over two million dollars from Humanity United in order to fund research on genocide and the prevention of mass atrocities...
...Carr Center Director Sarah B. Sewall will lead the research project, which aims to develop methods to stop genocide through partnerships with U.S. military planners. The grant, announced last Friday, will fund research over a three-year period...
Conversely, foreign fiction - especially topical, realistic novels - sells well in France. Such story-driven Anglo-Saxon authors as William Boyd, John le Carré and Ian McEwan are over-represented on French best-seller lists, while Americans such as Paul Auster and Douglas Kennedy are considered adopted sons. "This is a place where literature is still taken seriously," says Kennedy, whose The Woman in the Fifth was a recent best seller in French translation. "But if you look at American fiction, it deals with the American condition, one way or another. French novelists produce interesting stuff, but what they...
Sewall, an expert on counterinsurgency and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, said that she did not believe that the polls would turn around. Allison, a former Defense Department official, added that while there has been “some measurable progress on security, the political situation has actually deteriorated...
Bruner has been thinking about this a lot lately because he has co-written, with his Darden colleague Sean D. Carr, a fortuitously timed new book titled The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm. That year saw a string of bank failures and a stock-market collapse that was halted only when J.P. Morgan browbeat his fellow moguls into ponying up cash to stop the panic. The 1907 crisis in turn led to the creation of the Federal Reserve, which was supposed to do what Morgan did, only more reliably...