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Sachs found that the standard policy toolbox used by the International Monetary Fund--structural adjustment--was limited and often harmful to poor countries. AIDs and malaria in Africa can be a greater obstacle to growth than debt. "Life doesn't come with one problem neatly separated from the rest. Specialization is helpful, but you've got to see the web," he says. Sachs labels this comprehensive approach "clinical economics." It's an idea he gleaned from his wife Sonia Ehrlich, a pediatrician...
...stories listed on Google News reveals a remarkable consistency in the way the president has been characterized by journalists and commentators. The Los Angeles Times, for instance, referred to him as “abrasive” in the opening line of their Feb. 26 report, while the Weekly Standard compared him to Archie Bunker in a write-up about student protestors at Harvard. The Boston Globe has made several references to Summers’ “confrontational” nature over the course of their recent coverage, and the Washington Post, in their Jan. 19th report, mentioned...
Obviously venturing into territory where no twenty-first century man should ever find himself, Summers got entangled in a verbal thorn-patch of “differences in the standard deviation” and “different socialization” and, most notorious of all, “issues of intrinsic aptitude.” The effect—and not just to grandstanders like MIT’s Nancy Hopkins—was to suggest that women are not as prevalent in math and science because they don’t deserve...
...story centers on the tempestuous love/hate relationship between American Will Darcy and Indian Lalita Bakshi. The storyline should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Jane Austen, or any standard boy-meets-girl Hollywood romance, really; what makes this film so enjoyable is its marriage of Eastern style and Western content (especially fun to see when the setting moves to Los Angeles) and the way this relationship parallels the one between Lalita and Darcy...
...education that compels us to act. We are turning the outstanding education we have received from Harvard College towards an effective and meaningful solution. If we want our Senior Gift to remain true to its intentions we must help make Harvard live up to the high standard it has already set for itself...