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...seriousness, this is really quite unfair.' ALAN GREENSPAN, former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, defending himself against accusations that his policies are to blame for the nation's current economic woes...
...When you make the move to Cambridge in fall of 2008, you will be leading a new program on risk regulation. What is this program about? CRS: The idea is that a lot of the problems the nation and world are now confronting are really about risk. Examples include natural disasters, infectious diseases, climate change, terrorism and nuclear proliferation. There are common questions that cut across these issues—how do humans actually think about risk? When do our thoughts go into the long term, that is, when do we consider the future? How can we get our legal...
...resembles Hogwarts’ sorting ceremony; acceptance letters are delivered by owls. Harvard has almost everything that the magical world of Harry Potter contains—except for Quidditch. Although Harvard is still missing out on the magic, “Muggle Quidditch” is sweeping through the nation. Well over one hundred colleges, including our Ivy League rivals Yale and Princeton, are already part of the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association, the official league started by Middlebury College students in 2005. Muggle Quidditch is played just like wizard Quidditch—for the most part. The game includes equipment such...
...when people called Hawaii a "melting pot" in the early 1960s, they meant a place where white people blended with Asians. At the time, 19% of white women in Hawaii married Chinese men, and that was considered radical by the rest of the nation. Black people made up less than 1% of the state's population. And while interracial marriage was legal there, it was banned in half the other states...
...Catholic priest in Port-au-Prince, who called Haiti's situation a "near-famine," told the Associated Press this week, "Some can't take the hunger anymore." If "some" turns into many or most, as seems likely, the world may once again have to watch the hemisphere's poorest nation be reduced to one of the most violent...