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...Most people don't realize that China has 55 ethnic minorities. An abrupt switch to a democratic system would probably prove disastrous. A strong central government exercising a bit of authoritarianism is probably not the worst evil for China at this point in time. China has made substantial progress in integrating capitalist reforms, which have brought immeasurable economic benefits. As the century moves along, the government will gradually relax its policies and adopt concepts like intellectual-property rights and maybe even human rights. I look forward to TIME's regular section on China. George Lu Rockville, Maryland...
Sources: Wall Street Journal (2); New York Times (2); Center for American Progress (2); Agence France-Presse...
...less able to attend to other issues on which U.S. leadership could produce success--such as stopping genocide in Africa or fighting poverty in the developing world or tackling global climate change. Without sustained attention to those problems from America's top diplomat, the world won't make much progress toward finding solutions...
...Educating the Educators To the Presidential Search CommitteeHarvard is at a similar juncture today. In five short months, there will again be a new president, the institution is direly in need of change, and the faculty is entrenched in its ways and on the whole resistant to much needed progress. It is hard to fathom Harvard’s 28th president being quite as blunt as Eliot was the outset of his administration—particularly in light of the events that transpired one year ago, which abruptly ended Lawrence H. Summers’ short tenure. Harvard is, however, badly...
...University’s most critical priorities for the preservation of its global academic prominence and the fulfillment of its effort to serve society. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard’s academic heart, continues to grapple with fundamental questions of pedagogy and curriculum. Despite some progress, undergraduate education and life remain at the periphery of the University’s agenda. The solutions that the next president brings to these challenges will exert a profound impact on the future of Harvard for generations to come...