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...prestigious year-long Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship—which aims to help graduating seniors “discover and clarify the purpose of [one’s] life” through cultural immersion and field studies—the David Rockefeller grants are designed to sponsor a wider swath of programs, including internships and coursework studies at other universities. The Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship prohibits such academic endeavors and activities spent in the practice or furtherance of a professional career,” according to the fellowship’s Web site. “We run the gamut...
...last twenty-five years is because of removing immigration barriers and expanding the workforce within states, especially China, India, and the European Union. It’s time to make this happen on a worldwide scale. Liberalizing trade and migration both create wealth, and migration does so on a wider scale. The moral and economic interests of the majority of citizens in the developed and developing world are aligned, and it shouldn’t require cosmopolitan ethics to unite and untie the hands of humans to work where they please. Raúl A. Carrillo...
...lack of economic opportunity head-on. Among other measures, he has promised to increase education funding, invest in job-creation programs in disadvantaged neighborhoods, and raise the minimum wage and the Earned Income Tax Credit. While these campaign pledges may be transformed or scaled back in the face of wider recession, they reflect Obama’s understanding of the problems that disproportionately affect minorities, and his desire to solve them...
...Senior lamas of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism now regularly attend the Dalai Lama's teachings. The Dalai Lama has arranged for the Karmapa, an important lama who escaped from a Tibetan monastery eight years ago, to be tutored in several languages, including Korean, an indication of a wider global role...
...Harvard, Silverman became even more engaged, taking a freshman seminar that used baseball as a way to look at American history. The class got him more seriously interested in the game and its effects on the wider world. Outside the classroom, Silverman continued to watch games voraciously with his Leverett House roommates...