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...point at which it becomes completely divorced from both historical and present context. Some students may feel that the best policy is to look at the subject of race from a purely historical and intellectual standpoint—perhaps with a genuine wish to divest racial thinking of its power??while ignoring the very real and very present societal and emotional consequences of the subject at hand. However, this is often the very thought process that contributes to the type of barefaced insensitivity that was on display in my Af-Am class...
...David Ross, former President Clinton’s chief negotiator at the 2000 Camp David negotiations, seemed more concerned with discussing the limits of the lobby’s power??questioning Walt and Mearsheimer’s linkage of the lobby’s power to Iraq and Iran...
...world is witnessing a gradual “realignment of economic power?? in the face of unprecedented global imbalances that defy textbook explanations, said Harvard’s endowment chief yesterday in his first appearance before students. Mohamed A. El-Erian, the new chief executive of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), addressed a friendly crowd of roughly 100 students for about an hour in a speech sponsored by the Harvard International Business Club and the Harvard Society of Arab Students in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium. The dialogue played to El-Erian’s strengths...
...Soft power?? is a term coined by Nye, initially with reference to the United States. In a 2004 Foreign Affairs article, he described “soft power?? as the “ability to attract others by the legitimacy of U.S. policies and the values that underlie them.” China, the panel observed, is increasingly using diplomacy, culture, and popular appeal to conduct its foreign policy...
According to Nye, “nations can work together to increase soft power?? through cultural exchange programs and trade agreements, for example...