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...you’re into arguing and debating and public speaking, then it becomes sort of second nature, I suppose,” he said. “I can tone it down.” A few weeks ago, Chris had run for Undergraduate Council representative and lost. He had started campaigning online over the summer, which wasn’t allowed, and the UC had slapped sanctions on his campaign. In the end, he had received more last place votes than first place ones. This is a story typical of overeager freshman politicos. Harvard students have a deep...
...power block. “It’s an inside joke,” Derek told me. At Harvard, it’s not easy to deny certain kinds of ambition. Just ask Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, the current president of the Undergraduate Council. Matt says that he’s planning to be a high school humanities teacher. He’s earning a teaching certificate and has done work in Boston schools. Do people believe that his life’s ambition is to be a teacher? Not really. Show too much aptitude...
...Under the terms of the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai would share power, with Mugabe as president chairing the National Security Council and Tsvangirai as prime minister chairing the Council of Ministers. The two would split control over the government’s key ministries. Most significantly, Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) would retain control of the army and national defense, while Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would be in charge of daily operations and home affairs. Tsvangirai considers the latter cabinet essential given its control of the police, who were...
...think Chen's sensational detention will affect the government, in part because Ma has been careful to distance himself from the case. "There won't be many political repercussions, except die-hard supporters coming out to rally for him," says Andrew Yang, Secretary-General of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies. From the beginning, Ma has insisted that Chen's case has been left entirely to the judiciary...
...Jerusalem's Arabs seldom vote. Over the decades, the Palestinian leadership has urged Arabs to boycott municipal elections, claiming that it would validate Israel's "illegal" claim to the city. But the city's Arabs lose everything by refusing to vote. Without anyone lobbying for them on the city council, Arabs receive just one-tenth of municipal services - they have fewer schools, clinics, playgrounds and road repair - despite paying taxes...