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...cannot overstate how important it is to have someone in office who has lived abroad and can see the United States from the inside out and from the outside in,” Power, a 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner, informed a Kennedy School of Government auditorium audience of more than 100 Harvard students and faculty...
Theda Skocpol, the outgoing dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is this year’s recipient of the highest international honor for political scientists. The committee that awards the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science honored Skocpol, the Thomas professor of government and sociology, “for her visionary analysis of the significance of the state for revolutions, welfare, and political trust, pursued with theoretical depth and empirical evidence.” Skocpol will travel to Uppsala University in Sweden to receive the prize, including about $72,000 in cash, on Sept...
Nakamura's work did not remain obscure for long. He left Japan in 1999 to join the University of California at Santa Barbara and last year won the $1.3 million Millennium Technology Prize for his work on LEDs. He is now researching zero-energy-loss LEDs, which would be close to 100% efficient. Today even the best LEDs lose some energy to heat. Many scientists feel LEDs are already approaching the limit of their efficiency, but it wouldn't be the first time Nakamura has defied the odds...
Folkert is what's known in the philanthropic world as a "microfinancier." Pioneered by last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, microfinance is the making of tiny loans to credit-poor entrepreneurs. Yunus began in 1976, with $27 loans to impoverished farmers, financed from his own pocket. Today about 10,000 microfinance institutions hold more than $7 billion in outstanding loans. As Yunus told TIME last October, "At the rate we're heading, we'll halve total poverty...
Only a targeted divestment policy can achieve successes like this; a company-by-company approach, which only pursues companies after they have done wrong, simply cannot. Fifty student groups, 1,285 Harvard affiliates, and 33 faculty, instructors, and fellows—including Stanley Hoffman, Martha Minow, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Samantha Power—have called for targeted divestment. We hope that the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility will adopt a targeted divestment policy as a step toward changing corporate behavior in the Sudan...