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Noted health care economist and former Dean of the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87 will become the latest Harvard professor to serve in the Obama administration, he said in an interview late Thursday. Cutler joins three other members of the economics department in Washington??former University President Lawrence H. Summers, and professors Jeremy C. Stein and Jeffrey B. Liebman. “I think that people who have the opportunity to help their country and the world need to, at times, do that,” Cutler said of his leave. Cutler...
...more than four decades, Cuba has been an international pariah of sorts. The reclusive dictatorship was expelled from the Organization of American States in 1962 at Washington??s request, and Cuban-American relations have been officially nonexistent for even longer. While this policy of economic and political isolation may have made sense during the Cold War—when the Soviet Union was actively supporting the Castro regime through military and economic aid—the policies currently in place are anachronistic and actually harmful to regional stability. Nor has the international community been silent in the condemnation...
...WASHINGTON??Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States yesterday before a record crowd of onlookers, taking his place in history as the first black commander-in-chief while calling on Americans to join together to confront the deepening financial crisis...
...challenges facing the incoming U.S. administration are high and the expectations even higher; in that, foreign affairs are no exception. In order to realize the hopes of millions around the world and revitalize Washington??s stance in the international community, Obama must be pragmatic but also remain true to the ideals of political and economic freedoms and human rights that America once helped make into international law. Neither the superpower nor the rest of the world can afford another obtuse administration—it may sound trite, but the stakes are just too high...
...right not to vote represents our freedom not to define ourselves around politics–the freedom, in fact, not to follow politics at all. It is the choice to govern one’s own life directly—not by way of Washington??as well as the ability to refrain from interfering in the lives of others. It is the freedom to withhold our approval from government...