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...innovative” solutions for the remaining $143 million deficit. When asked to explain the growth of the administration in the past few years, Smith reverts to stock optimism: “I’m a very forward-looking person,” he says. When asked to comment on budget plans that could impact a particular group of people, Smith responds by simply affirming his commitment to supporting them...
...class had been approved to count toward either “United States of the World” or “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning” if taken for the full year—but not both. Kenen, Harris, Miron, Stock, and Mankiw all declined to comment on the specifics behind Ec10’s approval.Since Gen Ed lacks a clear category for economics, economists have met the curriculum with indifference or hostility.“I don’t see how you can possibly evaluate different things without knowing some microeconomics that’s global...
...possible, Harvard is a purveyor of much more than education. Although it is not quite clear whether former university president Larry Summers really referred to the college as “Camp Harvard” he was not far from the truth if he indeed had made the comment. We swim in activities and sometimes neglect classes. The word “camp” also implies a fixed space, which quite accurately describes that few of us leave campus as frequently as we all agree would be beneficial for our health. The term “Harvard bubble?...
...recent meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu generated speculation over the future relationship between America and Israel, and a potentially changed U.S. policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Analysts on the right and left are commenting on a new, tougher American policy characterized by strengthened U.S. demands on Israel. However, beneath the diplomatic choreography lies an agonizing reality that received only brief comment from Obama and silence from Netanyahu: The ongoing devastation of the people of Gaza...
...fading consensus on rules and an eroding understanding of what they are for. Trauma and grief overwhelm the landscape despite expressions of resilience. The feeling of abandonment among people appears complete, understood perhaps in their growing inability to identify with any sense of possibility. The most striking was this comment: “It is no longer the occupation or even the war that consumes us but the realization of our own irrelevance...