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...partisan divide. Even former Republican Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, James Baker and Colin Powell have urged expanding direct contacts between the two nations, and the Bush Administration last July sent U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs William Burns sat down with diplomats from Iran and Europe to discuss the nuclear stand-off. Regardless of campaign-trail rhetoric, the need to talk directly to Tehran is fast becoming bipartisan conventional wisdom in the U.S. foreign policy establishment...
...screening and discussion of the documentary film “Revolution ’67” at Harvard Law School last night explored issues of protest and community organization with an audience from throughout Harvard’s schools and the local community. The film, a documentary originally produced for and shown on PBS in 2007, portrays the black community’s violent riots in Newark, New Jersey, in the summer of 1967. It goes on to discuss how “the plight of the poor is forgotten” in the history...
...ultimately what we want.” Although there have been proposals for improving the city’s middle schools in the past, School Committee member Joseph G. Grassi, who chairs the Blue Ribbon Commission with Fowler-Finn, said there had never been meetings like these to discuss the issue with the public. Fowler-Finn, who will step down as superintendent in four months, is expected to present several formal recommendations to the school committee in November. In December, the committee will make the final decision on whether to proceed with any plan of action. But Grassi emphasized that...
...honor of the beginning of the crew season, and just because we all miss the Summer Olympics, FM sat down with Cameron S. H. Winklevoss ’04 to discuss his summer in Beijing, his undergrad experience at Harvard, and his status as Facebook’s enemy number...
...That's not a service to the audience, but it's the impression I've gotten at times even from business journalists I normally admire. Last night on PBS's NewsHour, for instance, an anchor put the question to the New York Times' Joe Nocera. I've heard him discuss business news in layman's terms masterfully on NPR for years; if anyone could put this in perspective succinctly, I thought, it would be him. But his answer was yet another of those general explanations - businesses lose access to money, people lose jobs - that avoided that essential question of degree...