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...business class, the world is your village, and you're connected with your counterparts from all corners. For those whose journey involves a long truck ride through a desert or a dangerous boat ride across open sea, globalization is often much less forgiving. Millions of people every year seek to migrate, legally and illegally, from poor countries, either to the industrialized world or to more prosperous developing countries such as South Africa. But the poor in the developing world are determined not to diminish the little they have by sharing it with foreign migrants and, like many in the rich...
...When Hillary Clinton began her run for the presidency on Jan. 20, 2007, she promised to make history. As the first viable female contender to seek the nation’s highest office, the Senator’s candidacy has fundamentally altered the nation’s political landscape. Not only has she opened the door to women seeking to occupy the Oval Office, but she has also reinvigorated the nation’s electorate...
...leading Democrats to increase both the number of federal Pell Grants available to college students and raise the maximum size of those awards. The proposed bill, called the “Strengthening Student Aid for All Act,” would allow more students from low-income backgrounds to seek college education while avoiding costly private loans...
...first World Series in 86 years and pandemonium reigned in the Yard. Two years after that I became a member of the first Harvard College class since that of 1919 to witness multiple Red Sox championship teams. As my father put it when I called home in 2004 to seek consolation, “86 years, and it only took you two months!”All kidding aside, I could go on and on about my objections to the widespread Sox bandwagoning by Harvard students, which at times seemed as ubiquitous as complaints about dining hall fare...
...Most concentrations leave students to seek out an adviser on their own, a process that requires them to bounce from one office hours to another, peddling their idea. (Or as Jeffrey Miron, the director of undergraduate studies for economics, put it, “the system is self-motivated and decentralized—like much in economics.”) For those without pre-existing relationships with professors (most small classes are taken during junior and senior years, especially in large departments), the prospect of finding an adviser can be especially daunting...