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...political reality,” said Summers, pointing to former Senator Bob Graham D-Fla. in the audience who was nodding in agreement. Graham was a fellow at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this fall and is serving as a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government??s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs this spring. “That’s what the political class out there is facing. Maybe the answer is [to] put an economics course in every high school and we’ll be OK,” said Summers, taking...
...five members with little time to find an interim replacement. Calls to members of the Harvard Corporation last night were not returned. Bok has maintained a constant presence at Harvard since he left the presidency in 1991, serving as faculty chair of the Kennedy School of Government??s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and as a University professor. Last month, Bok stepped down as chairman of Common Cause, a government watchdog group, after eight years at its helm. But Bok wrote in an e-mail that he had decided to resign from the organization in early January...
...Cabinet-level agency under former President Clinton. He lambasted the Bush administration for gutting the agency and criticized the rise of political appointments at agencies such as FEMA. “Our country has never seen a response that failed so bad,” Witt said of the government??s reaction to Hurricane Katrina. “Thirteen hundred people did not have to lose their lives.” Witt also called for carefully orchestrated urban planning in the reconstruction of New Orleans and a commitment to rebuild the wetlands of the Mississippi delta. Approximately fifty...
...around 200,000 lbs. There was only some social disapproval. In fact, opium, in the form of laudanum, was in widespread use, and cough mixtures including a little of it could be bought over the counter in England as late as the 1950s.The Chinese government??s own attitude seemed ambivalent. Even in the later 1830s, the emperor’s advisers were divided between enforcing prohibition and legalizing, regulating, and taxing opium imports. Only in 1839 did the emperor opt for a strict prohibition, sending the admirable Commissioner Lin to Canton to see to it. Lin ordered...
...bloodstained terrorists, within two years of taking office Likud had made peace with Egypt, Israel’s oldest and most powerful enemy, by ceding to them the Sinai Peninsula, which included both thousands of Israeli citizens and numerous oil fields. Twenty-two years later it was another Likud government??that of Ariel Sharon—that ceded yet more territory to the Arabs when it completed the disengagement from Gaza this past summer...