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...implications, according to Christakis. “If things spread in networks, if I get you to behave well, others will start to behave well too,” he said. “The dollars spent on getting you to behave well have a much bigger rate of return than I previously thought, for instance.” The paper was co-authored with James H. Fowler ’92 and Christopher T. Dawes, both researchers at the University of California-San Diego. —Staff writer Gordon Y. Liao can be reached at liao@fas.harvard.edu...
Women at Work I agree with Vivienne Walt's support for Rachida Dati's quick return to work [Jan. 26]. Here in France there is a Stepford Wives social pressure that is unimaginable elsewhere. I have lived here since 2006 and am aware of female peer pressure to conform to images considered permissible, laudable and responsible for women. Due to my traveling as an aid worker, being non-French and divorced, all sorts of labels are thrown at me, making it impossible to do almost anything alone. How sad when women have laudable goals and yet members of their...
Harvard Kennedy School professor Ashton B. Carter may return to the Pentagon after nearly a decade in academia. Carter, the former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy under the Clinton administration, is expected to be named to the Pentagon’s top acquisition and technology job as early as this week, Reuters reports. The announcement would come as a flurry of Harvard professors—including many of Carter’s colleagues at the Kennedy School—prepare to head south for Washington to join the Obama administration. News of Carter’s likely...
...secular. But when Iraqis were given the right to choose their leaders at the polls, Allawi lost out to the parties based on Shi'ite and Sunni identity. Since then, he and his party have been working to promote a more secular approach to Iraqi governance, and the preliminary returns released on Thursday for Iraq's provincial elections show they are making gains - at least relative to their marginalization in the two previous national elections. (See pictures of the return to normalcy on Iraq's streets...
...while ethics in politics is an important cause, it pales in comparison to that of health-care reform. While it would be nice if our politicians played by the same tax rules as the rest of the public, an improper tax return has never caused a death. A failure to mention a source of income has never kept medicine from the sick. By sinking the nomination of a man who had by far the best chance of enacting a fair and equitable health-care system in the United States, supposed liberals like the New York Times editorial board may have...