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...sentiment might have been dismissed as dreamy rhetoric. Not today. However the crisis ends, there is widespread agreement that developing economies such as Brazil, China and India will be crucial to ensuring that demand remains buoyant. Lula, too, has changed. These days he's a pragmatist who is as popular inside corporate boardrooms as he is in the favelas. On March 17, he will meet new U.S. President Barack Obama - a fellow moderate liberal who shares Lula's passion for green-energy ventures - in the White House. He will be the first Latin American leader to meet Obama since...
...street markets of Warsaw and Prague in those early years of freedom, the symbols of communism - badges, pins, posters - were sold off, their proceeds helping folk survive in the wild and freewheeling free market. But there was also a knowing embrace of the absurdity of it all. A popular Polish cartoon showed a man clutching a Polish flag stepping out of the jaws of a vicious-looking fish labeled Socjalizm and straight into the open mouth of an equally angry-looking fish labeled Kapitalizm...
...more flexible curriculum on Tuesday afternoon, according to the department’s director of undergraduate studies, Mark J. Schiefsky. The new set of requirements no longer includes the department’s unique general exams or its decades-old mandatory reading list, although they remain popular with many students. Its seven tracks of study are being reduced to two—Classical Civilizations and Classical Languages and Literatures. The latter track will require fewer language courses than current language-intensive tracks.Now that a final version has been agreed upon, the proposal will soon be presented to the Educational Policy...
...host to many a sketchy Harvard party -- has reportedly been slapped with a cease and desist order from the friendly neighborhood fire department. That means yet another rare Harvard Square party venue is rendered effectively dead, and as a result, Harvard groups that hoped to plan parties in the popular space are out of luck...
...This is not as far-fetched as it might first sound. A friend in Karachi - educated, a staunch feminist and usually disparaging of all things religious - invokes a popular ditty every time the game is brought up: "I don't like cricket; I love it," she chants (after the 1978 10cc number "Dreadlock Holiday"). When I interviewed one of the founding members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group suspected of orchestrating November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the ice was broken with a discussion of a cricket match. And when I visited a conservative seminary campus in Muridke, near...