Word: globe
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Professor of Economics Jeffrey D. Sachs alsowarned of the dangers of protectionism. "We arethreatening to jeopardize deeply important foreignpolicy goals in East Asia," he said, adding thatthe U.S. must give economic aid to nations in thatregion of the globe, especially the Philippines."World leadership doesn't come free. We have tomake some sacrifices for it," Sachs said...
...placed on any watch list. He should not be excluded from polite company. He should even be welcomed at Harvard, to lecture, to debate, to honor others. But should this apologist for his father's Nazi war crimes be among the two handfuls of distinguished people from around the globe honored by Harvard? Many survivers of the Holocaust and others who care deeply about justice do not believe so. They do not want the Harvard honor to be understood as helping Richard von Weizsacker "rehabilitate his family name," if that includes the deservedly disgraced name of his Nazi war criminal...
...conspicuously lacking in candor and truthfulness...has no business gracing--or disgracing--Harvard University's 1987 Commencement as its principle speaker," the historian wrote yesterday in an opinion piece published in the the Boston Globe...
...account of the tribulations of the Department of History at Harvard University which appeared in The Harvard Crimson and The Boston Globe seems to involve an assumption which may be worth some re-thinking. Be assured that I write this apologia for the elders among the Americanists in the Department out of no abiding affection for Harvard. Five years there as a graduate student in history in the 1930s left me with a deep distaste for that university as an institution, a distaste not wholly inconvenient since it enables me without scruple to toss the meeching appeals for further funding...
...even frightens his neighbors on the globe...