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SANTIAGO, Chile —After 13 hours of flying to Santiago (complete with rowdy representatives from Wal-Mart and the equally vociferous and offensively twangy producers of the “Redneck Roadshow”), the prospect of making broken conversation in my broken Spanish with my Chilean host family proved unappealing...
...mainly cheered ¡sí! or ¡bueno! to their questions, giving an occasional laugh. Finally, I caught a question about having a glass of something and primitively signaled my thirst with a quick head nod. Claudia, my host mother, explained what she was giving me. It resembled lemonade, so I pretended to understand and took a huge swig...
Wilkinson said that those conferences would take place as scheduled, but that "people will just have to work harder" in light of the reduced staffing. For this upcoming year, organizers expect the conferences to host 475 to 500 TFs and 30 junior faculty members, he said, as well as the newly appointed Harvard College Fellows...
...think it's refreshing in an age where there's so much bring-home-the-bacon for your district, he's been so disciplined with money." -Keven Cohen, a South Carolina radio-show host, on the governor's opposition to heavy government spending (New York Times, April...
...Lowdown: "It all started in Shanghai in 1909," the authors note of the dawn of narcotics regulation. And what a century it's been. What began as an opium epidemic in China has since become a global problem that includes heroin, cocaine, marijuana, amphetamines and a host of other illicit substances that compose a $320 billion-a-year industry, making drugs one of the most valuable commodities in the world. But despite arguments that legalizing drugs would destroy the organized-crime rings that currently control the market, the report argues that "mafia coffers are equally nourished by the trafficking...