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When Jigme Singye Wangchuck was crowned king of the Himalayan nation of Bhutan in 1972, he declared he was more concerned with ?Gross National Happiness? than with Gross Domestic Product. This probably didn?t come as a surprise to the forest-laden country?s 810,000 to 2.2 million (estimates...
This was not the last time Harvard was to suffer for Summers’ alleged doggedness. Despite heavy protestations from faculty, alums and students, Summers refused to add Harvard to a long list of law school plaintiffs challenging the shameful Solomon Amendment. Passed in 1996, the law allowed the federal...
In pressing ahead, the U.S. intends to deny the insurgents an important psychological victory. But proceeding may well mean learning to live with a new administration in Iraq, one considerably less desirable (from Washington's point of view) than a trusted friend such as Allawi. The national assembly that will...
The Final Splintering The turmoil over Ukraine's November presidential elections once again put that country in the spotlight [Dec. 6]. It was only 13 years ago that the former founding member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics declared itself a separate nation, helping guarantee the ultimate demise of...
proportions," but that was an understatement - the tragedy was quintessentially international. Europe and the entire world watched the disaster unfold on television and the Internet - images that inevitably brought to mind the Bali terrorist bombing of 2002 - and slowly came to grips with the scope of the catastrophe. "It was...