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Harvard Business School (HBS) earned a first-place ranking last month in the Financial Times’ annual evaluation of MBA programs around the globe. HBS tied for first with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which has perennially held the top spot alone...
While at Harvard it is now easy to study abroad—the rightly-praised Office of International Programs (OIP) efficiently encourages and dispatches dozens to study-abroad programs around the globe, successfully increasing the ranks of the “globally competent”—non-academic experiences abroad are much harder to come by. Yet students in the College are quite desirous of leaving campus to explore the world through volunteering and working. Working abroad, however, is a challenge for all those who do not have family or friends in foreign countries and ample personal funds...
...produced only a slight warming of the tropical Pacific since August. A more significant culprit, say meteorologists, is a less well-known phenomenon called the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), named after the pair of scientists--Roland Madden and Paul Julian--who discovered it in 1971. The MJO is a globe-girdling disturbance that sweeps across equatorial waters at intervals of 30 to 60 days. Under its influence, says climatologist Wayne Higgins of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the atmosphere at mid-latitudes can undergo dramatic rearrangement. The result: a classic configuration called the Pineapple Express, in which...
...message, wondering aloud where the isolationist Texas governor who campaigned in 2000 is now. The cost of the Iraq war and the expansion of government in response to the war on terror have long troubled some principled conservatives, and the project of establishing democracies across the globe is something that would make them cringe...
...National Weather Service estimated that the snowstorm may rank in the top ten recorded in southern New England history, the Boston Globe reported...