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...does take off, it will mark a comeback for Douste-Blazy, a medical doctor by training who received withering press at home during his brief stint as Foreign Minister from 2005 to 2007. It's no accident that he's a Frenchman: the French have for several years levied a compulsory tax on airline tickets to help fund development projects and have long sought to get others to join them, with mixed success. Brazil is one of only a few countries to have followed suit. Norway also taxes airline CO2 emissions and uses the receipts for overseas aid. (Read "France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Airline-Ticket Tax to Aid the Developing World | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...good every year,” Murphy says. “They’re returning the nucleus of their football team, other than quarterback. They have more people returning than any other team I think in our league.”Harvard’s biggest question mark heading into tomorrow’s season opener at Holy Cross is unarguably at quarterback. But Murphy seems confident in his play callers, namely junior Collier Winters, who will be taking snaps in the opening drive. “Collier’s a natural athlete, a natural runner...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL '09: 'New' Team Ready for Title Run | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...many things about our political culture we can take pride in,” primarily civil rights protection. “To delude ourselves from thinking otherwise is a mistake, and a potentially dangerous one.”The panel also included Law School professor Mark V. Tushnet ’67, visiting professor to HLS and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Sanford V. Levinson, and Kennedy School professor Alexander Keyssar ’69—who, after Klarman’s rousing 12-minute diatribe against the Constitution’s failings, joked that the audience might...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Souter Debates Constitution | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...stiffer competition, the Crimson more than held its own, as the team of five individual golfers finished in a tie for seventh place with the University of Nevada Las Vegas out of a field of 18 of the nation’s best teams. Harvard tallied improving team marks of 310, 303, and 291 over the course of the three days, to finish the tournament 40 over par on the par 72 course. Pepperdine University the re[resentative from the West Coast Conference won the event with an overall mark of 17 over par. “We showed...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Hits It Big in Vegas | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...With reporting by Mark Thompson / Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striking al-Qaeda in a Terrorist Breeding Ground | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

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