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...easy to spread the blame for this sorry state of affairs. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the G20, an informal grouping that has none of the bureaucratic trappings that can help ensure fine words are turned into concrete action. Reaching a consensus among the U.S, Japan and Europe in the old G7 cartel was hard enough; doing so in the G20, which includes China, India, Russia, Brazil and Mexico, is exponentially harder. It doesn't help that members' interests vary so sharply. China, for example, owns so much U.S. government debt that it's publicly worrying...
...longer count all those Euro-American crises and collisions that threatened to demolish the coalition about twice a year. The almost-breaking point came in 2002-03, when Paris, Berlin and Moscow joined hands against President George W. Bush and his war in Iraq. And yet the Alliance held...
...writing to thank and commend The Harvard Crimson for its coverage of the historic stamp issuance ceremony we held to honor Harvard Law School graduate and civil rights legend Charles Hamilton Houston, Jr., here in Cambridge, Saturday, February 21, 2009. While the Crimson’s article accurately conveyed the content and spirit of the event, it overlooked the exceptionally important work of my friend and colleague, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who served on the United States Postal Service Committee responsible for selecting individuals to be honored by the issuance of stamps. He played a key role in seeing...
...recent incidents of racism on campus, about 200 undergraduates flocked to the Science Center lawn at noon yesterday to participate in the “Many Colors, One Harvard” rally. The demonstration—which was sponsored by more than 40 Harvard student groups—was held partially as a show of solidarity following an incident on March 6 in which racist comments were scrawled on the walls of Lowell Grille after a graffiti-themed party that was hosted by the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Student Association. As speakers blared music in the background, the multiracial crowd held...
Perhaps more significantly, Medvedev has been taking small but symbolic steps away from Putin's more authoritarian style of rule recently. Speaking with regional lawmakers on Friday, Medvedev said open discussion of anticrisis measures was "permissible and even necessary." On Sunday, protesters held a sanctioned, peaceful march in Vladivostok - the same city where they had been beaten and arrested at a similar demonstration months earlier. Also on Sunday, Medvedev said unemployment actually stood at 6 million instead of the official figure of 2 million during a now weekly television appearance addressing the crisis. (It's worth noting that Medvedev...