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...coming back to Harvard was the opportunity to research corruption and ethics as director of the Safra Center. “For the next five years we’re going to be doing a major research project...on the improper influence of money in a whole bunch of contexts??medical research, academic research, government, and politics,” Lessig said in an interview Friday. “It’s a chance to do something that I wasn’t able to do anywhere else in the world.” Throughout the first...
...Spanish, but I have trouble understanding her accent. And I have casually thrown Spanish words into English conversation, which has been my most successful attempt at speaking Spanish outside of the classroom. (Most often, I say “salud,” in both of its contexts??after someone sneezes or right before drinking...
...reserved crisis mode, or “fight-or-flight” response, in times of stress. Culturally, it is common to hear of latent potential being uncovered in the wake of challenge and adversity, capabilities not even close to being fully realized until they are tested. In ordinary contexts??taking a difficult exam, for instance, or running in a competitive race—self-discovery is a positive thing. In the context of government performance, however, it is ironic and inappropriate. Lives should not have to be lost before an administration feels inspired to do its best...
...That is utterly ridiculous. The word ‘reparations’ is a common English word used to indicate payment for a wrong,” Kafie wrote in an e-mail. “It can be and has been used in many contexts??including ours—that have nothing to do with race...
Something is wrong here. Krugman does attribute the direct quotations from the diplomat to The Economist, but he describes the quotations’ contexts??particularly in the second sentence—as though it is his voice and not The Economist’s. In doing so, he passes off entire sequences of words (e.g. “...compared the situation to that of Japanese-Americans who were interned after 1941, and wondered whether Mexico...”) written by The Economist...
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