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But who, then, will lead the country toward the economic and social reform it so badly needs? Crushed by inflation and 16% unemployment, Iranians are losing patience. At Tehran University two weeks ago, thousands held a pro-democracy demonstration, chanting angry slogans against hard-line mullahs while holding pictures of...
A year and a half ago, a group of students, professors and administrators from Middlebury College came to Harvard to find out how A. Lawrence Lowell's 70-year-old House experiment might be replicated elsewhere.
A second, reverse, equally unintentional and equally unpleasant experiment sealed my hypothesis. Last winter I spent most of my time in the short view. Shunning the dangerous temptations of the outside world, I worked in my room an average of 12 hours a day, reading for classes and writing my...
We can fix that, I think. Some have protested that the armed forces are not supposed to be a social experiment. I say, let's make it a real experiment. Here's how: Enlist the baby boomers now. Replace today's armed forces, in which the young predominate, with service...
The most common conceit about our future, of course, is that the kind of cash we will most want to use will be digital. But the paperless wallet has proved as practical as the paperless office. In late 1997, two New York City banks tried an experiment on the Upper...