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Following his speech, Putnam entertained questions from his audience about Facebook, immigration, and the implications of increasing diversity on communities...
Earlier this month, a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs made a proposal that left the blogosphere up in arms. During a speech at the Herzliya Conference in Israel on Feb.3, Kramer argued that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency should cease providing the citizens of Gaza with what he deemed to be “pro-natal” aid (aid that “deliberately encourages births”) to curtail its population’s radicalization. In a clip posted on his blog, Kramer asserts that the subsidies currently offered by the UNRWA...
...form of genocide, Kramer was not advocating an ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s citizens, but rather a shift in the average age of their population with the intention of, in his opinion, benefiting them in the long run. Considering the content of Kramer’s speech, labeling his policy as “genocide” is unfair, and steers the debate away from his actual argument...
...risk factor for premature death, social isolation is as big a risk factor as smoking,” Putnam said in his speech, which was cosponsored by the Wellness Center, the Harvard Student Mental Health Liaisons, and the Harvard Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group...
Paul Barreira, the director of behavioral health and academic counseling at Harvard University Health Services, said he had sought out Putnam to deliver the keynote speech as part of an ongoing effort to create a caring and supportive community at Harvard...