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Senator John F. Kerry, the veteran senator who was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, easily won the Massachusetts Democratic primary on Tuesday, though a strong showing by a virtually unknown challenger evidenced the voter frustration that many political analysts have said is a potent political force this election cycle...
An incident earlier this month has raised concerns about Harvard University Police Department’s treatment of racial minorities on campus, leading University President Drew G. Faust to announce the creation of a six-member committee to review HUPD’s practices.“The review will...
As it happens, Gates' financial history has followed the Friedman philosophy more than his own. Gates founded Microsoft and ran it with legendary single-mindedness for three decades. There was not a lot of energy devoted to lifting up the world's poor. Now, having squeezed every drop out of...
Within hours of Kurt Waldheim's victory in the Austrian presidential runoff on June 8, posters reading BACK TO THE FUTURE began to sprout up around Vienna. Austrian citizens, it seemed, were eager to be done with divisive questions about Waldheim's Nazi past and to let the victorious candidate...
The core of the Soka Gakkai practice is the chanting of the phrase nam myoho renge kyo - "I devote myself to the mystic law of the Lotus Sutra" - but it is otherwise stripped of mysticism or ascetic self-denial. It teaches a mix of personal affirmation, positive thinking, and the...