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...World War II, it was the advanced Dutch system of registering ethnic minorities that facilitated the deportation and subsequent extermination of innocent Jews from this country. Though the Dutch have since trumpeted the mantra of “never again,” has their society really learned its lesson...
...Italy’s identity crisis has been going on for at least 15 years, if not more. Why would anti-immigration sentiment become increasingly popular and widespread now? To understand the second aspect of this xenophobia, I draw upon a lesson I learned from Ec10 (words I thought I would never write): Times of crisis, in particular slow economic growth, are bad for democracy. William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy Professor Benjamin M. Friedman’s April 6th lecture, “The Economic and Financial Crisis: Also a Moral Threat,” suggested that anti...
...injury. "I thought it was fake when I first heard about it. I can't believe he has such bad luck!" says Ma Cheng, a 28-year-old who plays basketball with colleagues every day at the Dongdan Sports Center in central Beijing. (Watch TIME's video "A Free Lesson with Kobe Bryant...
...aviation, which, as a 17-year-old technology fan, I found remarkable [June 15]. It opened my eyes to everything I take advantage of in this world filled with gadgets that can do anything and with practically immediate travel all over the globe. Maybe America should take a lesson from less technologically advanced nations, whose citizens, instead of being in sync with their computers and cell phones, are probably in sync with their families, their lives and their surroundings. All the things we "need" are just pulling us away from what is really important in this world. I hope more...