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Over the course of four years, Harvard students responded to the Cold War as tensions flared inside and outside Harvard Yard. Senator Joseph McCarthy targets Harvard University in his quest to weed out alleged communists in America. The United States develops the hydrogen bomb, and the first color television is sold. For the Class of 1957, these events were the background to their time at Harvard...
...Middle East? Economists often talk of the "curse of oil," pointing out that countries with resources such as oil often grow more slowly, more corruptly, less equitably, more violently and with more authoritarian governments than others do. The authors of Escaping the Resource Curse - Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz and Macartan Humphreys - assert that there is "a strong association between resource wealth and the likelihood of weak democratic development, corruption and civil war." Western oil workers in the Middle East lived in secure compounds with armed guards long before hijackers hit the Twin Towers. Is that same pattern developing...
...Seasoned travelers have more expendable income than ever, and when they take a break from their hectic lives, they want to be totally catered to," says Joseph McInerney, president and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. Indeed, guests' spending at luxury hotels increased an estimated 14% just from 2005 to 2006--from $8.2 billion to $9.3 billion--and increased nearly 57% from 2001 to 2006, according to Robert Mandelbaum, director of research at Atlanta-based PKF Hospitality Research...
...Commentators on the streets sensed a conspiracy: "It's those Brazilians," noted taxi-driver Juan Gonzales, even though the ruling came from FIFA President Joseph Blatter in Zurich, reelected this week to a third consecutive term in office. "They and the Argentines pressured FIFA because they don't like that they lose sometimes when they play in Bolivia...
Nabel, a resident of Bethesda, Md. who leads the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, and Reisman Professor of Medicine Jeffrey S. Flier are said to be on the top of President-elect Drew G. Faust’s list of potential replacements for HMS dean Joseph B. Martin, The Boston Globe first reported yesterday...