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...widened dramatically. There are now 1.07 boys born for each girl in China, compared to a ratio of 1.05 in the West. Given the size of the world’s population, a 0.02 difference can translate into millions of people. According to authors like Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, as many as 100 million women have gone “missing” in Asia. Most authors have attributed the missing women to high levels of female mortality. But in her paper, “Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women,” Oster said...
...Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) met with two groups of Harvard students on Monday afternoon after a personal invitation was extended to him by Maxine Isaacs, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Kerry, the Commonwealth’s junior senator, served as the Democratic standard-bearer in 2004 and was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1985. He is widely believed to be harboring presidential aspirations for 2008. Kerry first met with students yesterday at the Institute of Politics, where he had a short lunch with a group of twelve first...
...debated whether her rationale for withdrawing to preserve executive privilege is reasonable, her decision to withdraw was undeniably the correct one. Much of the anti-Miers vitriol swirling around her nomination was spawned from a conservative fear that her views on critical social issues, such as abortion, were unclear. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., for one, refused to endorse her out of a fear that she would fail to retain a strictly conservative judicial philosophy. Miers’ unclear judicial philosophy is a product of her lack of judicial experience. If Miers had previously served in a lower court, then...
...Sen. Deborah A. Stabenow, D-Mich., spoke on the importance of women in politics and the challenges she has faced as Michigan’s first female senator before a full audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Friday afternoon. Stabenow spoke as part of the series “From Harvard Square to the Oval Office: A Political Campaign Practicum”—an initiative of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Stabenow focused on the issue of suffrage, praising women...
...America, a self-described independent group that works closely with the White House, planned to have an ad for him on the air within seven hours. At the other end of the spectrum, the liberal People for the American Way said his judicial philosophy "is far to the right." Sen. Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, had a straight face as he called Alito "controversial," and said he has real questions about the judge's record on civil rights, women's rights and workers' rights. "It's sad that [Bush] felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide...