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...recruiting en route to banking or consulting. The recruiting season will really take off in a couple of months, but companies are already flexing their corporate muscle with posters in House entryways and psuedo-informal get-togethers at the Charles Hotel, forcing all seniors, regardless of their intentions, to confront the issue of next year before this one has even properly begun. In fact, that may not be an entirely terrible thing: nothing is harder, for me at least, than stepping back to see the big picture when in the midst of hectic day-to-day life at Harvard...
...unique moment in transatlantic history. Amid all the broken glass, a window of opportunity stands wide open. Both chastened, Europe and America could be looking at a wondrously creative moment in their turbulent relationship. Gone is the ancient Soviet threat that used to fuse them together; they now confront a whole slew of new threats neither can manage on its own - from terrorism to aids, from creeping protectionism to the collapse of failed states. Why not raise our sights above the headlines and consider a grander bargain? Think about the golden age of American diplomacy in the 1940s that...
President Bush this week told the UN General Assembly that he went to war in Iraq to defend the credibility of the international body. Saddam's weapons of mass destruction represented an intolerable threat to international security, Bush said, and if the UN was derelict in its duty to confront that threat, the U.S. could afford no such luxury. But the Bush administration's current efforts on the sidelines at the UN to persuade reluctant nations to send troops to relieve the burden carried by U.S. forces in Iraq has not been helped by the absence of evidence to support...
Have you recently visited a campus where posters, flyers and other marketing materials confront students with messages such as, “Most students at our school have five or fewer drinks when they party”? If so, then you have been exposed to a social norms marketing campaign designed to decrease heavy alcohol use among students. We at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Alcohol Studies Program recently published a study evaluating this increasingly popular alcohol prevention practice, used by almost half of four-year colleges in the U.S. Our goal was to evaluate...
Whatever the outcome of Congress’s contentious debate over a Medicare prescription drug benefit—whether or not the legislation now being considered is enacted—lawmakers are only beginning to confront the most difficult question about Medicare’s future. How will the federal government provide and finance a prescription drug benefit for seniors that will be viable for decades to come...