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...question-and-answer session, Bachelet responded to a question about how her government compares to those of other Latin American countries, specifically Venezuela. While she said that all the governments share common objectives of tackling poverty and creating better opportunities for their people, she acknowledged that they have chosen to go about it in very different ways. “People have paid a lot of attention to the Chavez model and due attention has to be given to the Chilean model,” said Soo Min Seo, a first-year masters student in public policy at the Kennedy...
...Spangled Banner. I don’t even sing “Happy Birthday.” Fortunately, Harvard’s celebrated soap opera Ivory Tower also held auditions at Agassiz that night. I inquired about auditioning and was promptly handed a script to look over. The role chosen for me? Sam—the outspoken, snobbish New Yorker. Typecast much? Anyway, I (flawlessly, might I add) recited my lines in front of the Ivory Tower execs and a daunting video camera. Despite my laudable delivery, they did ask for one additional take that would...
...Hammonds said she has not heard of students with specific family problems stemming from the downturn. Finally, election results for the parliamentarian, who runs the proceedings for the faculty meetings, will be announced soon, according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell. Official word cannot be given until the chosen candidate has been informed of his or her appointment. —Staff Writer Benjamin M. Jaffe can be reached at bjaffe@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Ames, 2005) and solving Fermat's Last Theorem (mathematician Andrew Wiles, 1997). Seven have nabbed the Nobel Prize, including geneticist Barbara McClintock (1981) and former U.S. poet laureate Joseph Brodsky (1981). Others have won Pulitzers, Fields Medals -the math world's top honor - and National Book Awards. The chosen few are informed by an "out-of-the-blue" phone call, which can prompt shrieks, stunned silence, and, in the case of one recipient about three years ago, an apparent fainting epidemic. One stubborn recipient put up a protracted fight before Fanton convinced him to step away from his work...
...governing experience and foreign policy). Aging and angry John McCain picks young Sarah Palin, ambitious but inexperienced and not remotely qualified for a position that demands brave yet sensible world leadership. In South Africa, our precious 15-year-old democracy is dominated by a single party that has chosen a leader with no governing track record, intent on quashing a state case against him for fraud. This same government, notes Perry's report, owns 24% of Sasol, a cutting-edge coal-to-liquid oil company started by the former "white supremacist" leaders and now used by the incumbents to "dilute...