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...Moscow on Monday because of the dairy ban has infuriated the Kremlin, and despite Belarus' achievements with the E.U., the price for angering Russian President Dmitri Medvedev may just be too high. "Exporting food to Russia has been one of [Belarus'] most important and reliable trade sectors," Andrew Wilson, a senior policy fellow at the think tank European Council on Foreign Relations, tells TIME. "The ban will definitely sting." In 2008, Russia bought 93% of Belarus' meat and dairy products, earning Belarus $1 billion...
...rest of us might be forgiven if we view Baucus' prediction with a little more skepticism. After all, universal health care is a cause that comes around every 15 or 20 years in Washington, and Presidents as far back as Woodrow Wilson have tried and failed to make it happen. The last big effort, in 1993 and 1994, was a political disaster that set Bill Clinton's presidency back a year or more. (Watch a video about a woman living without health insurance...
...Democratic Society trapped May in his office while advocating for changes to the University’s labor policy.A diplomatic leader, May spoke with the students for over an hour before attempting to leave.“He performed nobly,” said former Harvard professor James Q. Wilson, the chair of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, which dealt with the disciplinary action stemming from the situation. “He didn’t yield to excessive student demands, but he was perfectly willing to talk to them.”As both a professor...
...sophomore year in college. And conducting field work in the Caribbean would be one of many college forays that would be repeated once he returned to Harvard over twenty years later as an esteemed professor.Freshman year, Losos took an evolutionary biology course taught by celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson that would convince him to pursue his passion in organismic biology. Losos now teaches that same course, with an updated syllabus.—Staff writer Laura G. Mirviss can be reached at lmirviss@fas.harvard.edu...
...good ole boy, except he was just so fanatic about abortion." - Morris Wilson, former commander of the Kansas Unorganized Citizens Militia, Kansas City Star, June...