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With marketing savvy introduced into the equation, poverty-alleviation experts are concerned that people will be talked into loans they wouldn't otherwise want. "Most genuinely poor people are not happy with carrying debt," says international-development expert Thomas Dichter. "The danger of all this new money is that microcredit institutions will feel compelled to go out and generate more borrowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Trouble In Small Loans | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...forward to a visit” from him if his public justifications continued. Trivers denied any intent to threaten or harm Dershowitz physically. In 2008, it was a professor from outside of PED who ultimately invited Trivers anew. Notwithstanding Dershowitz’ dramatic claim to have posted his karate-expert secretary at his office door to protect him, Trivers delivered a brilliant and well-attended speech, which took him nowhere near Dershowitz or his office. That Trivers was disinvited in the first place remains an unwashed disgrace to Harvard, unprecedented since the McCarthy era with regard to any issue other...

Author: By J. lorand Matory | Title: What Do Critics of Israel Have to Fear? | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Israel. But others aren't so sure that Denmark ought to be engaged in a battle this big. "We have moved from being a small insignificant and neutral country without any military importance to being considered an extremely active participant in a more militant western world," says Islam expert Jorgen Baek Simonsen of the University of Copenhagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danes Ponder Islamic Ire | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...HIGHER ED EXPERT...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Right-Hand Woman | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Bush I is the world's leading expert on that topic (up in Kennebunkport, he's probably already got a short list in his head). He had been talked up for the Veep's spot in 1968, 1976 and of course finally snared it in 1980. That year, he had run an underdog's race against Ronald Reagan for the nomination, won or came in second in most contests and reluctantly ended his campaign after the Michigan primary. When he dropped out, few people thought Reagan would tap his top rival to be his partner. Reagan didn't care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week in Politics | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

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