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...Fund, but change needs to come at the policy level. "Right now we can see how successful these programs are in places like Germany and Pennsylvania but then doctors and hospitals come back and ask, 'Who's going to pay for it?'," she says. "It's a fair question...
Radford is not being entirely fair: Obama has increased alternative-energy funding to record levels and assembled a green team of advisers. They include his Energy Secretary, the Nobel Prize - winning Steven Chu, who told me recently that "the climate-change problem is at least equal in magnitude" to World War II. He's right. And if Obama wants to win this war, he's going to have to fight, not just make peace...
...from leaving the USSR. The student exchange programs—such as those in which the student delegates participated—demonstrated that the iron curtain had, indeed, begun to fall.In fact, 1959 was also the first year that the U.S. was allowed to host a trade and cultural fair in the Russian capital. However, the fact that the way in which the countries chose their delegation participants differed suggested that political tension and strong feelings of ideological superiority hadn’t ceased to exist. While American delegates were chosen on the basis of academic merit, the Soviet delegates...
...brother, Richard A. Lockshin ’59 had similar recollections. “I remember it—and mention it today—as a turning point in attitudes of many U.S. citizens toward Cuba,” Richard A. Lockshin said. He even quit the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which he had been a member of, after Castro’s visit.A HAVANA HARBINGERCastro’s visit to Harvard and to the United States in general marked a decisive time for Cuban-American relations. Prior to his visit, a New York Times article even said...
...asked Owings to be his girlfriend. Downer had assumed it was implicitly understood that they were together, but on the way back from a party, when he ran into someone he knew, he introduced Owings as his girlfriend. Downer and Owings had met earlier that semester at the activities fair held each year, where Owings was tabling for STAGE, a student organization that promotes theater in local public schools. He ended up joining the group and they started dating shortly afterward. “I was walking around looking for new extracurricular activities and found one for the rest...