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...Argentine-born Andres Oppenheimer, a Miami Herald columnist and co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, contrasts Latin America with tigers like Ireland and China in Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do (Random House; 300 pages). He tells the story of an Indiana businessman who, on a visit to the Great Wall, grouses that his Mexican clients don't "reinvest in their companies or improve the quality of their materials like the Chinese." Latin America's bane, Oppenheimer suggests, is "peripheral blindness"--measuring itself against its past instead of its contemporary competitors...
This week's cover story was written by Bryan, our Going Green columnist and environment writer. He got a start on his beat when he was based in Hong Kong as a writer covering science for TIME Asia. After a stint as Tokyo bureau chief, he moved to the U.S. in 2007. His experience in Asia has made him particularly sensitive to the need to balance environmentalism with economic growth. Bryan's piece is our call to arms to make this challenge--perhaps the most important one facing the planet--a true national priority...
...leaving “Nest”—I think of these things. I look forward to more artists extricating themselves from the futile pursuit an anachronistic lifestyle—or, rather, I hope people learn to get out of New York more often. —Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached atrldavis@fas.harvard.edu...
...undergraduate history concentrator at Radcliffe, Ellen Goodman ’63 never had a female professor and was denied access to Lamont Library because she was a woman. When the now syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist returned to Harvard yesterday to speak at the Kennedy School of Government, she said she was surprised that Harvard has made more progress in gender equality than the rest of the country. “I thought we’d have a woman in the White House before Harvard had a female president,” she said. In her speech...
...overwhelmed with nostalgia. My dichotomous experience of food in Tokyo, encapsulated and revealed by breakfast at Tsukiji, echoed exactly what made me fall in aesthetic love with the city: its conscientious fusion of old and new. There it is—enlightenment in the form of a rice bowl. -Columnist Rebecca A. Cooper can be reached at cooper3@fas.harvard.edu...