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While donations and divestments directly impact the situation on the ground, in the end these are no more than reactive, stop-gap measures. Monetary aid does provide real help to those in need, and provide it faster than the speed of political change, but alone can only mitigate effects and has difficulty reaching the root causes of genocide. Wouldn’t it be better if such efforts were never necessary at all? If genocide prevention were the norm, rather than the exception? This is the ambitious thought behind HDAG’s newest initiative...
...income gap among Chinese residents has been worsening since the year of 2003 and has reached the 'yellow' alarm level. Should there be no effective measures, it will reach the dangerous 'red' level in five years." ARTICLE appearing in China's Communist Party-run newspaper Study Times last week, seen as a government acknowledgement that increasing social unrest across the country might be tied to a growing gap between rich and poor...
...discrimination policies) is necessary because all-male final clubs control the vast majority of purely social space at Harvard. What they don’t take into account is that this space is privately financed. The College should not be pressured to help fix a social space gap for which it is not responsible. Of course, there’s a larger problem, too. Not nearly one-quarter of men at Harvard are final clubs members, and male non-members have even less entitlement to enter the clubs than women at the door do. This is simply to say that...
...outcome left Schröder and Merkel racing to cobble together a coalition - and most Germans wondering what it all means for the country. One interpretation is that the results are a sign of a deepening social divide between jobless and low-paid workers and young, urban professionals. "The gap between winners and losers used to be bridged by the welfare state," says Franz Walter, a political scientist at Göttingen University. "That is no longer happening. We are back in the Middle Ages, with the beggar in front of the church doors." Whatever government emerges will have...
With the Scarlet Knights’ attack smothering Harvard, Rutgers established a 13-7 gap in the second game and never looked back. The Crimson would never lead again in the match, falling...