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Optimism for this so-called third-Way economics is amplified in Michael Reid's Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul (Yale University Press; 400 pages). Reid, editor of the Americas section of the Economist, concedes that Latin America's chronic ills, especially its inequality between rich and poor, are among the world's worst. But his comparison of past and present yields a more sanguine picture: the region is "one of the world's most important testing laboratories for the viability of democratic capitalism as a global project." Reid insists that Latin America's democratic and capitalist...
Long before she even met her husband, and well before she decided to become pregnant, Euna Chung made a firm decision about how she would deliver her children. "I knew for years that I wanted a caesarean section," the 31-year-old Los Angeles--based child psychiatrist says...
...diabetic, doesn't have hypertension or, for that matter, any of the other risk factors that might indicate the need for a C-section. But a combination of having watched traumatic vaginal deliveries in medical school and hearing about her mother's difficult emergency caesarean experience after trying to deliver vaginally helped make up her mind. "I had a fear of going through labor and ending up with an emergency C-section anyway. I know that's rare, but I didn't want to deal with it," she says...
...rainy morning a few weeks ago, my biggest concern was trying to finish my reading for section. I have no way of knowing what 62-year-old Philip Macleod’s greatest sources of suffering and anxiety were: the frigid rain outside, unwashed clothes that smelled like stale beer, homelessness, loneliness, or depression. But Mr. Macleod walked into William James Hall that morning to get out of the cold, and maybe find some company. He broke the busy silence of the library with his boisterous attempts to engage students, including myself, in conversation. When Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...
...untied her strappy stilettos and slung them over his shoulder. “It’s more than showcasing clothes,” said Tran. “Identities is making a statement on a larger scale and bridging concepts and clothes.” The Hip-Hop section illustrated the difference between the East and the West. Creative directors Natasha M. Platt ’10 and Moonlit M. Wang ’10 said the exposure to Western culture influences the Asian hip-hop scene in novel ways. “We wanted to show how people...