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...been put there over the past 200 years by the developed world - but poor nations need to take some action as well. Fine, but the emergence of China, already the world's biggest carbon emitter, and to a lesser extent India, has complicated that equation. If China doesn't constrain its emissions, there's no hope of controlling global warming. Yet while China is getting richer all the time, it's still a developing country. Both China and India are likely to resist calls to make any sharp reductions to their emissions anytime soon, even as they - and other developing...
Harvard is considering replacing a $2 billion revolving line of credit with a smaller line of credit that charges a higher interest rate—a move that may constrain the University's cash flexibility during severe economic downturns...
...sole superpower for some time. Nevertheless, the geopolitical landscape is gradually becoming a multipolar environment where China will be a key player. If Beijing tries to attain hegemony in Asia, deterring it will be more complex than simply augmenting our already-enormous defense budget. A promising grand strategy to constrain China’s growing clout might couple offshore balancing—building a partnership of other powers opposed to Chinese dominance—with an effort to counter China’s unique methods of espionage. And while there is nothing objectionable in anticipating strategic challenges, Washington should...
Harvard students are codependent on authority: We need authorities to underwrite our internships, write our recommendations, and evaluate our comp performance. An ambitious sociologist might even make the argument that Harvard students, so desperate to be in a position of power someday, are less than eager to constrain power’s reach today. Now, some students have proven far too eager to defend aspects of the administration’s proposals for economizing Harvard’s budget against student activists, who have allegedly engaged in what one writer on this page deemed “hyperbole, rudeness...
English Professor Louis Menand and Philosophy Professor Alison Simmons—the two co-chairs of the Task Force on General Education, which wrote the legislation for the new curriculum to be launched this fall—said that they are concerned that the eight-category requirement may constrain students’ schedules, especially those who will also be pursuing secondary fields...