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...Summers still govern...
...what the vote means for Harvard’s president have focused on everything from the probability of his resignation to the possibility of reconciliation. One thing that everyone seems to agree upon, however, is that it’s going to be a lot harder for Summers to govern if he stays...
...been clear from the start that if President Bush was serious about his lovely rhetoric of freedom, his policy would have to involve more than the use of force. He would have to make a leap of faith about the ability of oppressed, impoverished and largely uneducated people to govern themselves. He is now midair in that leap and working without a net. "All the world is witnessing your great movement of conscience," Bush said at the National Defense University. "The American people are on your side. The momentum of freedom is on your side, and freedom will prevail...
...Last week, during negotiations among E.U. Finance Ministers, Luxembourg 's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker sounded like a calculus professor who'd run out of blackboard space. He's struggling with a difficult problem: how to revamp the stability and growth pact - the much-violated E.U. doctrine designed to govern fiscal rectitude - a task that falls to Juncker while his country holds the rotating E.U. presidency. The pact caps euro-zone countries' deficits at 3% of GDP; Germany and France want to change the rules on what spending gets counted in deficit calculations. Germany, for example, wants the billions...
...black intelligentsia is equipped with the intellectual capital to create and understand the complex political and theoretical ideas that govern public policy. However, they are not conversant in hip hop dialogue and are not familiar with its cultural dimensions (partly as a result of not being raised in hip hop culture). Hip hop artists serve as spokespersons of the urban generation, often exposing the effects of racial inequality and social injustice on the black experience. Yet, most artists are largely divorced from black history and are not in conversation with the most innovative thinkers of our time. Black politicians...