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...official qualification for the annual MOY/WOY award is a “lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment,” according to the Hasty Pudding’s website. But there are additional considerations, said Joshua E. Lachter ’09, the organization’s manager for press and publicity...
...Joshua D. Smith ’08 did precisely that. A native of Plant City, Florida—the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World—Smith left home with his conservative credentials intact, and returned having been elected co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA). But the e-mails preaching the right-wing gospel have kept on coming...
...JOSHUA A. BARRO...
Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene does brain scans of people as they ponder the so-called trolley problem. Suppose a trolley is rolling down the track toward five people who will die unless you pull a lever that diverts it onto another track--where, unfortunately, lies one person who will die instead. An easy call, most people say: minimizing the loss of life--a "utilitarian" goal, as philosophers put it--is the right thing...
There are some glimmers that such criticism is having an impact in Beijing. The Chinese, says Joshua Kurlantzick of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "are beginning to understand that some of their policies in Africa are turning people off" and have quietly turned to the U.S. and Britain for help in devising foreign-aid policies. A former senior U.S. official says Chinese officials have been closely monitoring the growing international distaste over its support for the Sudanese government. Congressman Lantos says younger Chinese diplomats "are embarrassed that the Chinese government is prepared...