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President Barack Obama warned in a speech on Wall Street Sept. 14 that "normalcy cannot lead to complacency." But normalcy is leading to complacency. Consider the financial reforms that Obama's Administration wants to push through Congress: the big ones are creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, giving the Federal Reserve the job of systemic-risk regulator and establishing a "resolution regime" to wind down troubled nonbank financial institutions (like Lehman) and complex bank holding companies. Steps in the right direction? Probably. Truly major reforms? Not so much--and even they may not win congressional approval...
...culmination of the “Say Yes to Drugs” campaign, which has been advertising its message in front of the Science Center for much of this week, came on Saturday with a benefit dance and speech in support of better global access to generic drugs...
Saturday’s events began with a speech from Dr. Matthew Craven, co-founder of Support for International Change, who focused on the importance of removing hurdles to wider production and distribution of generic drugs. Craven keyed on issues with “innovation, access[ibility] and delivery” of medicine to developing countries and argued that encouraging pharmaceutical companies to allow for the production of generic drugs was a step in the right direction in overcoming these challenges...
...President Alvaro Uribe’s visit to campus drew passionate responses this past Friday, as a group of Colombian students presented the president with a letter criticizing his decision to seek a third term in office while a number of local residents protested outside Uribe’s speech at the Institute of Politics...
Those outside the Harvard community also protested Uribe by picketing on the sidewalk outside the Institute of Politics before the speech on Friday afternoon. Representing a number of different labor groups, immigrants’ rights organizations, and antiwar coalitions in Boston and Cambridge, they held signs in both English and Spanish with slogans such as “No Uribe, No More Death Squads,” and “Uribe: Fascist, Imperialist Worm...