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...poorer countries, the same price hike has left low-income families struggling to maintain a minimal diet. Egypt, which subsidizes bread prices for its poorest citizens, had to shell out an extra $850 million on wheat last year, and the UN blames rising food prices for difficulty in meeting many of its Millennium Development goals in Sub-Saharan Africa...
...Pennsylvania Democratic primary, and even then, may still not know with certainty until late in the summer. Between now and then, the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have a responsibility to the millions of Democrats who have participated in the election to maintain a basic level of civility. This applies equally to the candidates and their staffers and advisors. The sort of personal animosity that motivated Obama’s advisor and Kennedy School professor Samantha Power’s comment last week, calling Clinton a “monster,” simply cannot be tolerated. Otherwise...
...current administration. Driven by the specter of terrorists in the Middle East, American foreign policy has lately assumed a more active, interventionist form. However, in Afghanistan and Iraq, this active intervention has not worked, reinforcing extremist positions rather than instilling democracy. To more effectively combat extremism and maintain stability, the United States should pursue a policy of containment and support for liberal—or at least Western-friendly—regimes...
...interest of Egypt, the United States, and the entire region for the elections to be guided by an interest in stability rather than the ideology of democratic reform. The current system is completely untenable, and democratic reform must happen in Egypt, but it must be measured so as to maintain the peace in an increasingly volatile region...
...weight class in remarkable fashion. Jantzen earned a fall in his first round bout in only 24 seconds before defeating Cornell’s Adam Frey, 11-7, in a hard-fought quarterfinal match. Jantzen could not land an upset against top-seeded Matthew Kyler, but the rookie did maintain his confidence and fought his way to the third-place match. The freshman forfeited the match midway through, though, in order to rest his nagging injuries before Nationals. While Jantzen and O’Connor will be the only Harvard representatives at NCAAs, junior Tommy Picarsic also posted an outstanding...