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...Highlight Reel:1. On walking through downtown Manhattan on 9/11 after years of reporting in Afghanistan: "Walking in, watching the flames shoot upward, the first thing I thought was that I was back in the Third World. My countrymen were going to think that this was the worst thing that had ever happened, the end of civilization. In the Third World, this sort of thing happened every day: earthquakes, famines, plagues ... All those street vendors who worked near the World Trade Center, from all those different countries, selling falafel and schwarma. When they heard the planes and watched the towers...
...United Nations Human Development Report. In her introduction to the speech, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan said Sen had earned the nickname “Mother Teresa of economics.” The talk drew a diverse audience, with many Law School students. Christel A. Green, a third-year law student, said she attended the event out of an interest in “economics and its effect on law and the best ways to help poor nations develop,” a subject that Sen has focused on for much of his career. In his lecture, Sen outlined...
...game.” Pizzotti wasted no time, serving up a 68-yard pass to Iannuzzi for the touchdown on the third play of the possession. “We gave up big, big plays, made brutal mistakes in all three phases of the game, and we let a team come back and beat us,” Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore said. “Give all the credit in the world to Harvard for coming back and being able to do that.” —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...game.”Pizzotti wasted no time, serving up a 68-yard pass to Iannuzzi for the touchdown on the third play of the possession.“We gave up big, big plays, made brutal mistakes in all three phases of the game, and we let a team come back and beat us,” Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore said. “Give all the credit in the world to Harvard for coming back and being able to do that.”—Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...LEWIS:There are two points I would like to make. One is the importance of Islam at the present time, which is about a billion and a third people, but it's not because of the numbers only but more because of its role at the present time, its situation in Europe, Africa, Israel and increasingly America, and the mood in which the Islamic world finds itself at the present time. I think it's very important that we should understand...