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...FREED. BOBBY FISCHER, 62, vitriolic chess legend; after being detained for eight months in Japan for an alleged passport violation; upon being granted citizenship in Iceland, where he is a hero for his 1972 victory over rival Boris Spassky. Fischer, whose extradition was sought by the U.S. for violating sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a re-match there against Spassky in 1992, flew to Reykjavik and publicly denounced the U.S. as "hypocritical and corrupt...
...premier classes of the undergraduate Harvard education, will face a fork in the road this fall when Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 ends his 21-year stint atop the course. Handing the reins to Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, the economics department has chosen the correct path for the course, regardless of the gripes of liberal opponents. Ec 10 undoubtedly presents a conservative view of the world to its many students, but it is a classical economic approach. Thus, Mankiw’s intention to inherit the course and teach it with...
...push for the release of some of the 9,000 prisoners doing time in Israeli jails - even those like Mardawi, whom Israel classifies as having "blood on their hands," meaning those who killed Israelis or took part in operations that ended in Israeli deaths. So far, Israel has freed only lower-level prisoners convicted of things like membership of a militant group or weapons possession. But Abbas, who formed a new government late last month, needs to keep the prisoners and their supporters in militant groups on his side if the current relative calm is ever to become a more...
Just a week after U.S. troops in Iraq killed Italian agent Nicola Calipari and wounded freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena, a similar incident emerged involving another U.S. ally: Bulgaria. On the evening that the Italians were shot, U.S. troops near the Iraqi city of Diwaniya killed a Bulgarian soldier, Gurdi Gurdev, whose patrol had stopped 150 m short of a U.S. checkpoint without realizing it was there. The Bulgarians, according to a letter posted on the Web by a "combat buddy" of the deceased, fired warning shots at a civilian Iraqi vehicle that was approaching them. "The Americans didn't know...
After 21 years at the helm of one of Harvard’s largest undergraduate courses, Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 will hand the reins of Ec 10 to Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw next fall...