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...Orbiting Over Nigeria What does launching satellites have to do with lifting Africans out of poverty? Just ask Robert Boroffice. He's the head of the space agency of Nigeria - yes, Nigeria - and he is convinced that space programs can succeed where earthbound projects have failed. Though blessed with vast oil reserves, Africa's most populous nation has been crippled by years of military rule and mismanagement. According to the World Bank, 70% of Nigerians live on less than $1 a day. But three years ago, Nigeria became only the second country in sub-Saharan Africa (after South Africa...
Each year, Harvard’s undergraduate admissions officers set out to attract the most accomplished, ambitious, and driven high school students in the world. Year after year they succeed, with very few exceptions. And if you are reading this column, chances are that you are one of them, which is all well and good, but for one little hiccup—so is each and every one of your classmates...
Sure, there are plenty of people at Harvard who work at what they love, love what they do, and love things like the environment and the elderly. There are lots of students here who genuinely believe that they can make a difference in the lives of others, and they succeed. A small sub-set of the undergraduate population might even see the value of their opportunities here as extending beyond the margins of their resum?...
...Still, Bartlett and others on the Bush team may yet succeed in convincing people that Woodward's revelations are ancient history, but not necessarily for reasons that are helpful to the President or the Republican Party. The real-time news out of Iraq continues to be so relentlessly grim that nothing, not even another Woodward expose, may be able to steal the spotlight for too long. So come to think of it, the White House might want to make State of Denial recommended reading after...
...approach to Iraq, no matter who controls Congress in January. He could envision minor adjustments being made, "but strategically," says Khalilzad, in an unwrinkled blue shirt, "I don't see an alternative that works for our national interest but to do everything we can to make Iraq succeed...