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...news that University President Lawrence H. Summers is considering proposals to eliminate Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID) is cause for concern. The Center could not exist at a more crucial time—as the University becomes increasingly global, the problems of the developing world elicit more attention than ever before. More than 40 million people worldwide, a disproportionate number of whom live in poor countries, are afflicted with HIV/AIDS. Last month, the publication of the World Bank’s annual World Development Indicators revealed similarly upsetting statistics: despite unprecedented prosperity gains in the West...
...Harvard offers scant resources for the study of developing countries as it is. Outside the CID these are dispersed over dozens of departments and academic centers, such that students interested in majoring in the field must petition for a special concentration. Lacking the CID’s crucial cluster of resources, undergraduates would have virtually no incentive to study development. Summers has indicated that should he proceed with a shutdown, students would not lose these programs. Yet even assuming the ideal scenario—that all the CID’s tasks were to seamlessly transfer to other Harvard organizations?...
...also the subject of major exhibitions in museums on both coasts, at MOCA and in New York City, where nearly the whole of the Guggenheim Museum has been given over to "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present." While that show focuses mainly on the same crucial years as MOCA's, it also looks back to earlier prototypes--Robert Rauschenberg's all-white paintings, Ad Reinhardt's all-black ones--and forward to more recent artists who have slyly adapted what Minimalism first offered...
...classic of 2002, was a meditative, superbly color-coded parable of love and death. Daggers is a jauntier piece, as renegade killer femmes do fantastic battle with the 9th century cops who pursue and fall in love with them. The Almodóvar and Zhang films foregrounded a crucial movie element often lost in Cannes' ponderous auteur gazing: star quality. Bad Education's lead actor is Mexico's Gael García Bernal, who rocketed to international celebrity in Y Tu Mamá También, and who plays the young Ernesto Guevara, pre-Che, in Walter Salles' The Motorcycle...
...decade. It's also the first Boeing jet with a foreign airline as the launch customer. The 7E7 is a midsize plane with about 250 seats. Take-off date: 2008. Although the plane retails for $120 million, launch customers traditionally get a hefty discount. The news comes at a crucial time. Boeing last year stopped making the 26-year-old 757 and might halt the 717 and 767 production lines. It hasn't sold a new 747 passenger plane in two years. Industry experts point out that Boeing has ceded to the Japanese 35% of the 7E7's manufacture...