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...attracted to the prospect of being able to advise Harvard’s leadership concerning what strikes me as an institution critical to the health of society,” he said. “I think the Graduate School of Education can do much to lead the sector in badly-needed change...
...boost in energy infrastructure that, it says, will alleviate the shortfalls by 2006. The nation expects to double its energy capacity by 2010, to 650,000 megawatts. But even that Herculean effort, combined with a much-publicized plan to cool down the economy and relieve pressure on the energy sector, might not be enough. "It's a little hard to believe that if China maintains growth rates of 6-8% that all of a sudden these shortages will disappear overnight in 2006," says Joseph Jacobelli, a Hong Kong-based regional utilities analyst for Merrill Lynch. Moreover, most of China...
...spring, that figure hovered at just two-thirds of the free-market price. This is meant to make electricity cheaper for consumers, but with so many industries gobbling up coal, many coal companies are loath to supply power plants. As a result, coal reserves held by China's electricity sector were down 40% last month compared with the same period the previous year. One major power plant in the eastern province of Jiangsu admitted that it had only three days' worth of coal reserves, according to an energy expert from the West who visited it last month. To cope...
Nowhere does anxiety about al-Qaeda run higher than in the Saudi royal family. The Saudis need the expertise of Westerners to help develop the country's oil sector and attract investment. The latest violence could drive more of them away. The U.S. embassy has recommended that all Americans leave the kingdom. Many of those who are staying say they are growing beards and donning local robes to hide their identities. As for the Saudi leaders, a U.S. official says they do not yet face a direct threat to their rule. But, he says, "there could be a long period...
...problem, not the solution. The moment they make a career out of getting elected, they’re no longer in public service, but in self-service. How can someone who’s been elected for 30 years know what’s going on in the private sector, if they don’t live...