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...Rich Lowry's viewpoint, "The World of Hillary Hatred," was off the mark [Nov. 19]. What conservatives hate about Clinton is that she is a woman. It's nothing more than old-fashioned sexism. Equal rights have always been anathema to them...
...argued that the West had grown rich by relying on tariffs and industrial policy, and that whatever economic growth the developing world had seen following World War II had resulted from their use of similar protectionist trade policies...
...remainder of the undergraduate tenure, Harvard pride makes a triumphant re-entry only four succeeding times: each year on the weekend before Thanksgiving. For the rest of the time, Harvard students are sometimes critical of, often self-deprecating about, but mostly oblivious to their college’s rich past...
...men—and recently, women too—who have come before us, whether presidents, renowned scholars, or the captains of Harvard’s seven national-championship football teams, should inspire not only a sense of pride but a sense of duty. We have succeeded to a rich inheritance and thus are responsible for a sacred trust, for the work assembled over generations—one that we should hope to transmit not only intact but even more abundant to the next era of Harvard students...
...nations' shared border. Rahman, however, sees a silver lining: Bangladesh's fleeing multitudes can help feed the West's need for cheap labor as its own population ages. "The globalization of the climate process will force the globalization of the demographic process," he says. And if the rich world is not ready to let in millions of Bangladeshis looking for somewhere dry to live? "The rich world caused this problem so they're going to have to pay for it," says Rahman. "I've started telling my colleagues from Europe and Canada that we might have to introduce a system...