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...politics centered on energy-related issues. Harvard’s center, however, should leverage its world-class resources in the sciences, design, law, business, and government—perhaps even collaborating with neighboring institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—to address energy issues in a comprehensive manner. Energy sustainability is among the most pressing issues that our society faces today, and Harvard should capitalize on its potential to provide groundbreaking solutions...
...alienating tactics from the opposite end of the spectrum was SLAM’s stunt of taking janitors’ children trick-or-treating at former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ home last Halloween to demand higher wages and increased benefits. Rather than advocating in a professional manner, a possibility given the ongoing bargaining between the janitors union and the University, the group decided that the best way to convince Summers that janitors need higher wages was to invade Summers’ personal life. This is akin to the students from Social Analysis 10 lobbying Professor N. Gregory...
...Yale game comes to Cambridge once every two years, and it is a very big deal to undergraduates when it does. Students will be partying on that Thursday night, whether the College approves or not, and making it possible for them to do so together and in a controlled manner is ultimately in everyone’s best interest. The plan was never for Thursday night (or Friday, for that matter), to be a huge College-sponsored booze-fest; ID-checking Beverage Authorization Teams (BATs) were always in the game plan for the night to ensure that underage students would...
...Western middle class rises in revolt, Tehran will likely declare itself a nuclear power sometime during the next presidency, knowing that the U.S. military is too stretched and exhausted to stop it. As North Korea's isolation deepens, Pyongyang may start peddling its nuclear possessions to all manner of interested buyers. Meanwhile, as Richard Haas argues in the current Foreign Affairs, the greater Arab world is likely to grow more radical, more unstable and less amenable to U.S. influence. And that's not to mention the prosepct of future Darfurs, which the next President will find even tougher to stop...
...They might even feel competitive pressure to demonstrate clean hands. In retirement, they will also have the financial independence to keep speaking out and setting a good example - a likely attraction for African leaders who haven't been able to make money by lecturing and writing memoirs in the manner of American ex-presidents. "Sometimes," says Ibrahim, "they find themselves without enough money to rent an apartment in the capital city that until a few weeks ago they were ruling from the palace on the top of the hill...