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...Harvard community, and especially those involved in the campus media where Mr. Douthat began his journalistic career, welcomes this news in particular. Mr. Douthat’s speedy rise through the ranks of opinion journalism does our newspaper—as well as the Salient—proud. Harvard for a long time has been privileged as a fertile ground for launching careers of all sorts, especially in journalism. Mr. Douthat, author of Privilege, the celebrated autobiographical account of his undergraduate years, offers further encouragement to the campus’s aspiring writers and thinkers...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Distinct ‘Privilege’ | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

Although Harvard has particular reason to celebrate, the rest of the public should similarly laud the Times’s smart choice of Mr. Douthat. The columnist whom he will replace, Mr. Kristol, has ancestral ties to the luminaries in the American conservative tradition. His father, Irving Kristol, chartered the school of thought known as “neoconservatism,” and he studied for his doctorate under Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., ’53, conservativism’s elder statesman and principal brain trust. Despite these credentials, Mr. Kristol’s short run on the Times?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Distinct ‘Privilege’ | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...cited horrors she witnessed on her many trips to the region as evidence that citizens must urge politicians to lobby for new policies concerning the genocide. Though she is best known for her cinematic and television roles, Farrow has recently taken up the mantle of human rights activist, focusing particular attention on the genocide in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands have been killed since 2003. Farrow focused on her own accounts of the widespread bloodshed and violence she saw on her most recent 4-week visit there for much of the event. “There were tribes where...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Farrow Encourages Activism | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...problem with keeping the swaps on the banks' books is that their potential payoff or loss is random, depending on the particular details of the contract and various outcomes in the world. Moreover, banks today are risk-averse and often factor worst-case scenarios into current pricing. Thus, they are far more likely to claim losses than profits on such instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Letting AIG Fail | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

Being by the sea took on special significance for particular widows. A life based on the rhythm of the tides meant a life slowed by long periods of waiting. Their husbands were as tied by the ocean as by their marriage—they were fishermen, boat mechanics, salt miners. The widows waited for days, sometimes months, while their husbands lived with the sea. And still now, each widow waits to be joined with her husband, not by his return but by her death. In the words of one: “It’s long...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Exhibition Explores Widowhood, Home | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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