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...Latin America is contingent on the involvement and equality of citizens, in a speech at the Institute of Politics last night. According to Bachelet, who was elected Chile’s first female president in 2006, democracy in Latin America has reached a point where its implementation is no longer on everyone’s minds, making the system vulnerable to an increase in apathy and institutional distrust among citizens. “What I mean is not that I am a pessimist, but we have a lot of things to do to consolidate a powerful democracy and make citizens...
...enlightening to listen to the panelists share their spiritual backgrounds with each other.” During the key-note address, Quinn described her transition from feeling “contempt and disdain for any kind of religious person” to now no longer calling herself an atheist. “Religion touches everything in our lives. You can’t be a truly informed person unless you understand religion,” Quinn said. Rachel A. Esplin ’10, a Mormon and undergraduate panelist, said she looks forward to similar conversations in the future...
...year institutional master plan, which is expected to be resubmitted in early 2009. BRA representative Mike Glavin said that city planners were cognizant of the transportation issues that were not addressed in last night’s meeting. “This was a useful start to a longer conversation,” he said. “These larger transportation challenges will certainly be addressed in due time, and nothing is off the table from the point of view of both short and long-term planning.” After Harvard representatives presented, resident Elizabeth Browne said that...
...fair program to evaluate just what it's buying. There is a lot of paperwork to go through: about 10% of the nation's $11 trillion in mortgages are delinquent or in foreclosure. Uncle Sam would likely hang on to some of the mortgage securities it buys for far longer before reselling them to investors, in an attempt to minimize its losses and maybe even turn a profit...
...Mullen, "time is running out." Pakistan has failed to wipe out the sanctuaries in the tribal areas from which Taliban insurgents routinely stage attacks on NATO forces across the border. And after allegedly discovering evidence of the Inter Services Intelligence agency's abiding ties to militant networks, Washington no longer trusts the Pakistani military with its operational intelligence. The U.S. also believes that the Pakistani army, equipped for conventional warfare against India, is ill suited to the counterinsurgency mission in the tribal areas...