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...student of economics, I always wonder about the mechanics of the technological process,” said Gerardo A. Flores ’11, who worked as a programmer in a developing country this summer. “It’s awesome to have people who have thought hard about these issues in one room, and see how it plays out.” Although the panelists doubted some facets of the technological explosion, all expressed some hope that technology could act as a catalyst for advancement in the developing world...
...void left by the death of longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, but Paul Kirk Jr. is the one who will try. On Sept. 24, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick tapped Kirk, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Kennedy's death. Thought to be the Kennedy family's pick, Kirk was once an aide to the Democratic Senator, and currently serves as the chairman of John F. Kennedy's presidential library. "Paul Kirk is a distinguished leader whose long collaboration with Senator Kennedy makes him an excellent interim choice to carry on [Kennedy...
...Paul was my dad's most loyal guy. My dad thought the world of Paul. I think the world of Paul." - Representative Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island, Ted Kennedy's youngest son, on Sept. 23 (CQPolitics...
...certain kind of candidate. We made a big mistake in the '80s by politicizing the Gospel. We ought to be engaged in politics, we ought to be good citizens, we ought to care about justice. But we have to be careful not to get into partisan alignment. We [thought] that we could solve the deteriorating moral state of our culture by electing good guys. That's nonsense. Now people are kind of realizing it was a mistake. A lot of people are going back and saying, "Let's just take care of the church and tend to our knitting...
...Killed Detroit? Most of us thought Detroit was pretty wonderful back in the '50s and early '60s, its mighty industrial engine humming in top gear, filling America's roads with the nation's signifying product and the city's houses and streets with nearly 2 million people. Of course, if you were black, it was substantially less wonderful, its neighborhoods as segregated as any in America. On the northwest side, not far from where I grew up, a homebuilder had in the 1940s erected a six-foot-high concrete wall, nearly half a mile long, to separate his development from...