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...Prevention and Response and the Crimson Key Society. He has the knowledge—he’s full of Harvard lore and claims to know what makes administrators tick. In short, he has many of the ingredients of a successful campus politician. But if historical precedent and student sentiment are any indication, he has some challenges yet to overcome. Both Schwartz and his running mate, Alneada D. Biggers ’10, are members of Final Clubs, the exclusive student groups which have a history of complicating political careers at Harvard. And the two, in their capacity as College...
...late William F. Buckley, Jr., himself a graduate of Yale, once famously remarked that he would prefer a government of the first 400 names in the Boston phone book to that of the Harvard faculty. Ancient collegiate rivalries aside, Buckley’s sentiment abides...
...function of placing the class in the 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. exam group instead of the 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. exam group, where it was initially. Schoenfeld said she was “thrilled” when she heard of the change. Other students expressed similar sentiment. “I was very excited that I was going to have a chance to see the inauguration live, since we were studying the election so closely in class,” said Doris A. Hernandez ’09. Schoenfeld did remark however, that some students in the class...
...currency reform," as a Treasury spokesman put it. The RMB has recently weakened against the dollar, raising global alarm bells that China might try to devalue it as a way to revive its gasping export sector, putting pressure on other exporters to weaken their currencies and stirring up protectionist sentiment in Washington - particularly among U.S. labor unions, which heavily backed President-elect Barack Obama. For its sake, China blandly replied that the recent fluctuations in the RMB market were in line with market forces...
...sources of that anger are not just economic. India has made little progress in resolving its decades-old dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir; in the meantime, the Indian troops who occupy it have turned the state into a swamp of resentment and virulent anti-Indian sentiment. The most raw grievance is the 2002 violence in the western state of Gujarat: nearly all of the 2,000 victims were Muslim, but only a handful of cases have been prosecuted. Gujarat, Kashmir and the 1992-93 anti-Muslim violence in Mumbai - in which hundreds were killed yet only three people convicted - have...