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...young peasant couple of Zerlina and Masetto, Jessica G. Peritz ’05 and Oussama Zahr ’04-’05, display just as much confidence and charisma as their older, professional counterparts. Peritz skillfully shifts her operatic tone from girlishly na??ve (in one duet with Don Giovanni) to seductive and pleading, as she tries to win back Masetto’s love...
...doubt that is the “vision” that the Review’s General Education Committee wants to articulate. But no curriculum reviewer should be na??ve enough to believe that a semester studying at Niger’s University of Niamey—currently an approved destination for Harvard undergraduates—is in any way equivalent to taking Western African history and culture courses at Harvard, or that such a semester would be academically productive without the right kind of study beforehand...
Others on our panel find even that tepid prediction to be optimistic. Moiss Na??m, a former Venezuelan Trade Minister who is editor of the Washington-based magazine Foreign Policy, agreed that the world economy was unlikely to crash. "But there's no doubt that America's adjustment is going to have consequences," he said. "U.S. interest rates matter to the rest of the world. They are a conveyor belt that is going to transmit shock waves to others...
...experts aren't convinced. They expect Bush will have to pare spending regardless of how strong the economy grows. Already there are signs that momentum may be slowing: the estimated 3.1% annualized growth rate posted in the U.S. in the fourth quarter is the weakest in two years. Na??m even predicts a battle in Washington between fiscal conservatives, who advocate a hands-on approach to managing the budget, and what he calls "starve-the-beasters," more ideological proponents who would like nothing more than to see some public programs bankrupted. (Here, too, are echoes of the Reagan years.) Na?...
Given the continuing high cost of labor in Europe and the strong euro, some of that growth is likely to come from overseas. Na??m speculates that European firms will increasingly acquire companies in places where it's less onerous to do business, such as the U.S., and move their base there. And he is worried that if the euro continues to strengthen, European protectionism could grow. "A euro of $1.40 or more for a couple of years is going to generate as much pressure on governments for protectionism as it is going to generate pressures toward deregulation," he said...