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...citizens of a place in which art is studied and even created, now more than ever should we recognize the latent power of what we study rather than burrow in the safer insignificance of our ideas. The more we deny (or fail to appreciate) the political import of art, deconstructing its minutiae rather than debating its argument, the more, as Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04 put it in a recent column, we augment the mutually reinforcing powerlessness of what we learn. It doesn’t take a draft to engage a university more directly with the problems...
...into a worldwide energy conglomerate. Cameco's goal is to become the ExxonMobil of uranium: a vertically integrated multinational involved in every stage of the fuel cycle, from extracting raw ore to fuel enrichment to delivering fuel rods. The company is a middleman in the U.S.-Russian program to import and reprocess uranium from decommissioned Soviet-era warheads, for use in reactors. With its 15% stake in the Bruce Power nuclear-power plant on Lake Huron in Ontario, the company is also an electricity generator. McArthur River lies at the heart of a nuclear empire that Cameco says will soon...
...developing world. The deadline for an agreement has passed, and passed again. But still the U.S. shows no signs of backing down from its lone veto of a plan agreed on by 143 other countries that would allow the poorest - without manufacturing capabilities of their own - to import generic drugs that are still patented in wealthy nations. "It goes right to the heart of whether the WTO can work or not," says Nathan Ford of Doctors Without Borders, a group pushing hard to loosen restrictions on generics. So far, it isn't working. The U.S. pharmaceutical industry, with American sales...
Broadbent will likely face off against the top-ranked college player in the country: sophomore Bernardo Samper, an import from Columbia. Broadbent would undoubtedly have his work...
...dean, I might have said to him, ‘John, for God’s sake, take a look at what you’re doing, you’re making a fool of yourself, and if you believe that you’re onto something of fantastic import... get some help from your colleagues,’” Relman said...