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...will be leading a new program on risk regulation. What is this program about? CRS: The idea is that a lot of the problems the nation and world are now confronting are really about risk. Examples include natural disasters, infectious diseases, climate change, terrorism and nuclear proliferation. There are common questions that cut across these issues—how do humans actually think about risk? When do our thoughts go into the long term, that is, when do we consider the future? How can we get our legal institutions to focus on the long term rather than the short term...
...also transportation to various contests. After all, you can’t exactly walk to New Haven.Club athletic teams, on the other hand, are not guaranteed funding of any kind. They are allowed to apply for special events grants from the Undergraduate Council or full-year grants from the Common Grant Application, but “it’s a lot more work for us,” Segal says. This year, to help the transition, new club teams were given up to $2000 in funding for the current academic calendar, but in the fall they will all find...
...water in the dining hall. Or the asbestos falling from ceilings in Lowell. The last thing we need is crappier living situations because Harvard over-accepted. And as someone who has never had a single in her college career, I absolutely will not put up with living in the common room again as a senior. And if that means that transfers must be put on hold for a year or two until the Harvard student population doesn’t resemble a population tree from Africa, that’s fine...
...ranks of an American oil company and moved the family to a nicer neighborhood. She was bored by the dinner parties he took her to, where men boasted about golf scores and wives complained about their Indonesian servants. The couple fought rarely but had less and less in common. "She wasn't prepared for the loneliness," Obama wrote in Dreams. "It was constant, like a shortness of breath." (See pictures of how Obama prepares a speech...
...Varin is one of the most renowned soothsayers in Thailand, where occult beliefs are common. His famous patrons are thought to include the former head of the military junta, Sonthi Boonyaratglin, a retired general who in September 2006 oversaw Thaksin's bloodless overthrow, ushering in more than a year of military rule before the elections last December that brought Samak to power. (The current P.M. openly campaigned as Thaksin's proxy, since the former leader is currently barred from re-entering Thai politics.) At an astrological ceremony on Sunday, Varin played host to associates of the military regime who have...