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...Harvard, our seniors didn’t disappoint to quite the same degree. But even as they weren’t outdone by first-years, and performed better than any other school studied, their average score of 70 percent was sub-par. Harvard has it bad, even if other schools have it worse...
Rwanda's unbending approach since its holocaust has led it to some remarkable successes - and embroiled it in controversy. What's undeniable is that Rwanda is forging a remarkable path to development. Last week the country was named the most improved sub-Saharan nation on the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, ranking factors such as transparency and human development over the last five years. If yesterday Rwanda was Africa's great tragedy, today, to many, it is its great hope. "This is not just a nation that's emerged from the ashes," says Ruxin. "It pulled itself...
Rwanda also scores well on some perennial African problems. It is one of the safest countries on the continent. It boasts the highest percentage of women in parliament anywhere in the world - 49%. Its rate of HIV infection is at 3% - tiny compared to the figure in other small sub-Saharan African development stars, such as Botswana and Namibia - and all its 35,000 aids sufferers are on antiretroviral drugs. It is investing heavily in education. The government is also tackling overpopulation, which - in that it describes a situation of too many people on not enough land - was an underlying...
...worse, this paranoid box-ticking is an affront to the fact that student groups augment, not corrupt, the Harvard name. Legally the name Harvard belongs to the President and Fellows. But without the faculty, students, and sub-agencies of the College cooperating in the Harvard project, it is hard to imagine that the name would be worth very much at all. We students are among the people who vest value in the Harvard name in the first place. It is an insult to assert that we have no right to its use, and that the very name...
...Africa. The IPCC's most recent report on Africa predicted a minimum 2.5 degree centigrade increase in the continent's temperature by 2030. Growing seasons will be cut short and stretches of land made unsuitable for agriculture, with yields declining by as much as 50% in some countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, between 25% and 40% of animals in national parks may become endangered. Africa's major bodies of water, including the Nile, will suffer excessive flooding caused by rising sea levels...