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If you are a firm believer in the war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates' grim assessment last month of what lies in store for the U.S. might have made you shudder. "If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of Central Asian Valhalla over there, we will...
But if you are a defense contractor who has enjoyed a decade of bottomless Pentagon funding, it was Gates' comments about a struggle much closer to home that are keeping you up at night. "The spigot of defense spending that opened on 9/11 is closing," he said. "With two major...
On Monday, January 19, 2009, in the quiet car of an Amtrak train from Penn Station to Union Station, I claimed a seat beside three women traveling together. They offered me homemade cake and a stick of gum while they chatted and sipped mini-bottles of white wine from the...
Secretly or openly, many Harvard students harbor aspirations to be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. This behavior manifests itself in the skyrocketing number of student organizations and enterprises. There are clubs devoted to starting other clubs and businesses devoted to founding other businesses. Overall, despite the shrinking student...
A panel of prominent scholars that included University President Drew G. Faust debated the complexities of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy before a packed audience at the Institute of Politics last night. Faust was joined by Pulitzer prize winner Tony Kushner, Harvard English professor John Stauffer, New Yorker writer...