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While there are many people who are elated at the election of Obama, they may not have considered all the consequences. I used to think that status as a First or Third World country depended on economic indicators such as gross national product. It turned out I was wrong. Back in the days of apartheid, South Africa was regarded by the outside world as a First World country. When the black majority took over in 1994, however, it was instantly reduced by the press to a Third World country, although the economy performed better than before. So the designation seems...
...America, it seems the dictum that “talking about politics is rude” has achieved the status of a universal truth. Even as our long election prompted chatter about Jeremiah Wright and Tina Fey, the culture in the United States still seems to be turned against more open, argumentative conversation about the political world...
After months of thorny back-and-forth negotiations, several revisions and much hand-wringing, the Iraqi Cabinet on Sunday finally approved the contentious Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which provides a legal basis for U.S. military operations to continue in Iraq after Dec. 31, when the U.N. mandate expires. But it's too early to pop the champagne. The bilateral U.S.-Iraqi security pact is by no means a done deal: it must still be ratified by a fractured parliament. The Cabinet vote had only one nay to 27 ayes, but nine Cabinet members chose to withdraw from the final...
...reforms impacted the College and its relationship to the arts, but their implementation also took a great deal of time. It took 42 years for the Department of Fine Arts to change its name and 12 for the Visual and Environmental Studies department to be granted concentration status. While today’s Task Force will benefit from the example of the Brown Report, current students are unlikely to reap the benefits of its findings before they graduate.Trevor J. Martin ’10, a VES concentrator and member of the Harvard College Art Society, is well aware of this...
...though, liberalism was becoming a victim of its own success. The post-World War II economic boom flooded America's colleges with the children of a rising middle class, and it was those children, who had never experienced life on an economic knife-edge, who began to question the status quo, the tidy, orderly society F.D.R. had built. For blacks in the South, they noted, order meant racial apartheid. For many women, it meant confinement to the home. For everyone, it meant stifling conformity, a society suffocated by rules about how people should dress, pray, imbibe and love...