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According to Alexander T. Nguyen '99, co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA) and a Crimson editor, the idea for a center first surfaced in 1968 after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The movement soon developed into a call for a "Third World Students Center...
...World Health Organization currently ranks Chagas the third greatest major public health problem in the world, with 16 to 18 million people already infected and a million new cases reported each year...
Nobody pretends this is enough to sustain global volcano work, and while a few countries have monitoring programs of their own, many of the Third World nations that are in the greatest danger are the least economically equipped to address it. The U.S. thus finds itself in a familiar leadership role at a time when its own federal budget is under growing pressure. At the USGS researchers can only hope that the funds for their work don't disappear before they have a chance to warn the world of the next volcanic disaster...
...Pudding is the third oldest running theater organization in the world, and the most storied artistic tradition at Harvard, with alums including Jack Lemmon '47 and Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld...
What if President Clinton walked by Boris Yeltsin without saying "hi" or bumped into Jacques Chirac without a "pardonnez-moi?" Why, that's an international diplomatic gaffe of the highest proportions. If U.S. News & World Report factored etiquette into their rankings, fair Harvard might not even make third...