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...problem, of course, extends beyond Harvard housing and into the broader realm of progressive politics. It seems like in the good old days, to be a liberal meant that one supported things like the working class, the pro-choice movement, and justice in the third world. Somewhere down the road, however, animal rights got thrown into the mix. Now, it seems that the vegetarians have established themselves as the “liberal elite,” leaving us progressive carnivores to dine elsewhere...
Many professors dismissed this initial motion as too narrowly tailored to garner significant support among the Faculty. That motion even referenced a 1991 memo Summers signed while Chief Economist for the World Bank, arguing that the third world is under-polluted...
...Second, Kennedy cites scientific literature showing that, like the retarded, adolescents lack mature judgment and a full appreciation of the consequences of their actions. They are also more vulnerable than adults to peer pressure. Third, Kennedy points out that only seven other countries have executed juvenile offenders since 1990, and all seven have repudiated the practice: "The United States now stands alone in a world that has turned its face against the juvenile death penalty...
...pleased to offer an excerpt from Jeffrey Sachs' forthcoming book, The End of Poverty. As regular readers of TIME know, Sachs is one of the world's most distinguished economists, a man who has guided countries from Bolivia to Poland through bad financial times, advised the Pope on Third World debt relief and helped launch the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria. As head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, he has tried to promote the idea that developing countries can protect the environment while improving the lives of their citizens. In writing The End of Poverty...
Such theories justified brutal forms of exploitation of the poor during colonial rule, and they persist even today among those who lack an understanding of what happened and is still happening in the Third World. In fact, the failure of the Third World to grow as rapidly as the First World is the result of a complex mix of factors, some geographical, some historical and some political. Imperial rule often left the conquered regions bereft of education, health care, indigenous political leadership and adequate physical infrastructure. Often, newly independent countries in the post--World War II period made disastrous political...