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...premier classes of the undergraduate Harvard education, will face a fork in the road this fall when Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 ends his 21-year stint atop the course. Handing the reins to Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, the economics department has chosen the correct path for the course, regardless of the gripes of liberal opponents. Ec 10 undoubtedly presents a conservative view of the world to its many students, but it is a classical economic approach. Thus, Mankiw’s intention to inherit the course and teach it with...
...last piece of the program, “Downtown Crossing,” was the world premier of Schwartz’s own composition. Paying homage to the title, Lowell Lecture Hall was decked out in balloon-lined music stands connected by colored tape covering the floor, representing the major stations and lines of the Boston T subway system...
Competing against some of the country’s premier divers can be intimidating, but the three Harvard divers embraced the challenge...
...Removing Tung could be part of a strategy to prevent that from happening. It would take away the focal point for dissent that Tung has become, and it would show that China's leaders are responsive to public opinion in Hong Kong. Both Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao have tried to convey the image of a kinder, gentler leadership that cares for the masses, even as they maintain a tight grip on power. During the SARS epidemic, for example, Wen sacked China's Health Minister for underplaying the scale of the crisis, and impressed Hong Kongers with his apparent warmth...
...time former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and Premier Zhao Ziyang died in January, he seemed to have already vanished from the consciousness of most citizens of China. Because he had been under house arrest ever since that fateful May night in 1989 when he tearfully appeared in Tiananmen Square, and because the leaders who succeeded him controlled the media, Zhao became a kind of political antimatter...