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River of Gold To see how finance has reshaped the British capital, take a trip to Greenwich, about 3 1⁄2 miles (6 km) downstream from Tower Bridge and home to the Royal Observatory, which dates back to 1675. It's the birthplace of Greenwich Mean Time, but for years the area was as well known for its mean streets: 19 Greenwich neighborhoods rank among the most deprived in England. Since 2001, the local council has pursued a major state-funded regeneration program aimed at cutting crime and unemployment, and improving the decaying public housing stock. But these days...
...bottom of all this, editor at large David Von Drehle--who makes his home in Kansas City, Mo.--took off in his family's dented minivan for a 750-mile (1,200 km) trip across the center of Missouri. Missouri, he notes, has backed the winner in every presidential election in the past 100 years except one. "I've done this sort of rolling interview before," he says, "and what struck me as different this time was that everyone seemed a little nervous to be talking politics." In general, David found a good number of blue collar white voters...
Tourist Jack Golden remembers a recent trip to China for all the wrong reasons. Golden, of Lenox, Mass., had a prostate condition that required medical treatment during a Yangtze River cruise. He had to endure an invasive procedure without anesthesia at a small, gritty hospital in Fengdu, an ancient city on the river's north bank. And that was the easy part. "The Chinese accept it because this is what they have," he says...
Jonathan C. Miller ’10, who will be taking part in the trip next week, said the discussion gave him a better understanding of the Constitutional issues...
mbridge at midnight for a 24-hour trip to Washington D.C. to hear two Supreme Court cases and meet with Justice David H. Souter ’61 next Tuesday. In preparation for the excursion, former Vermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeffrey L. Amestoy and Harvard Law Professors Noah R. Feldman and Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. discussed the context and facts of the two cases in Lowell House library last night...