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...expression of nationalist ire over China's treatment by foreign powers in the run-up to the Versailles Treaty but then turned into an antigovernment movement. Could today's protests take a similar turn? Plenty of Chinese have grouses about their rulers. Huang Jing, a visiting China scholar at the National University of Singapore's East Asian Institute, says public dissatisfaction could spill over into issues ranging from soaring inflation, the plunging stock market and rampant official corruption. If the government "lets nationalism keep rising unchecked, it could suddenly find its own position threatened," Huang says...
...Soon enough, three of Europe’s largest economies may be lobbying the ECB to effectively behave more like the American Federal Reserve. After all, since the beginning of the write-down debacle in Wall Street, renowned Great Depression scholar and Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75 has strongly favored loose economic policy (and a weaker dollar) to mitigate any economic downturn. Interest rate cuts have grabbed most headlines, but more money floating around will inevitably translate into higher inflation. It is only a matter of time...
Krister Stendahl, former dean and professor emeritus of the Harvard Divinity School, will be remembered by his colleagues for many things—among them, that he was “very Swedish.”Having left his homeland for a Harvard professorship in 1954, the New Testament scholar made his mark on the Harvard community and beyond with an understanding spirit that sought continuity in faith and integration in academia, said Divinity School professor Harvey Cox. “He was sort of a democratic socialist of the Swedish style—that was an integral part...
Catholicism's rich intellectual tradition makes its faith tradition richer, because the point isn't just to believe but to know WHY you believe. Benedict the scholar, as Jeff Israely and David van Biema noted in their TIME cover story this month, admires America's blending of faith and reason. And yet it's this very facet of our religion that is itching powder to a church that insists that only it can be trusted in the end to exercise reason on moral questions - don't try theology at home, the Vatican always seems to tell us - because it inevitably...
...Afro-Asian Encounters”—co-hosted by the Asian American Association (AAA) and the Black Students Association (BSA)—explored the relationship between African and Asian Americans in the United States. Presiding as keynote speaker, Tang, who offered a dual perspective as a scholar of both Afro-Am Studies at University of Illinois in Chicago and Asian-American Studies at Harvard, said that Asian and African Americans have a common thread of struggle in American history. Tang said that the civil rights movement of the 1960s was the first “revolution?...