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...lesson here may be that there is no solution to the problems of the U.S. economy that won't involve some pain. One interesting dynamic that will play out over the next few years is that some people and some countries are in far better shape to weather a slowdown than others. Right now, the U.S. isn't one of them: with our trade deficits and federal budget deficits, we may be more vulnerable than other economies to the effects of a broad global downturn. And so whatever happens in the markets this year, you probably will not feel...
...each other. "This is awesome. The energy," said cocktail waitress Carey Archer, which - other than John Edwards supporters - was the most underrepresented group in the room. "There's only four cocktail waitresses here from the Belalgio and there are 250 of us. It's kind of sad," she said. Lesson: Don't talk about politics when trying to pick up a cocktail waitress...
Nothing gives principal Suraya Sarwary more pleasure than the sound of her second-grade girls reciting a new lesson out loud. Six years ago, that sound could have gotten her executed. The Taliban had outlawed education for girls, but a few brave teachers taught them in secret. Sarwary, now the principal of Karokh District Girls High School in Afghanistan's Herat province, recalls gathering students furtively in her home and imparting lessons in whispers for fear that her neighbors might report her to the Taliban...
These days the biggest risk posed by the girls' enthusiastic recitation is that it may drown out the math lesson next door. Basira, a thin 8-year-old whose obligatory white head scarf is actually a cotton dish towel printed with Korean characters, stands before the class. She is learning to read today's lesson, which the teacher has written out on a makeshift blackboard propped up on a wobbly easel. "A vegetable should be washed before it is eaten," she reads aloud as she slowly traces each word with her fingertip. Her teacher beams, and her classmates applaud...
...that you were the Kennedy School of Government at some quotidian university, would we? For shame! But while those feisty agents of change down JFK St. were clawing away at the teeming masses of Kennedy-named impostors, Massachusetts Hall was teaching them—and us—a lesson in the power of glamour.On Dec. 10, President Drew G. Faust announced that Harvard would soon be marginally less than totally unaffordable for families that are marginally less than totally loaded. It was the throat clearing heard ’round the world. The Times pounced on the story...