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...That's a question that still has to be answered. A month on, the final count has been paralyzed while U.N. and Afghan officials argue over what to do next. Some want to declare Karzai the winner quickly, arguing that even with the fraudulent ballots subtracted, the incumbent may still have gathered more than 50% of the vote. This, they say, would spare Afghanistan and the international community another costly and potentially violent vote in the midst of winter blizzards. Hence all that talk of a backroom deal between Karzai and Abdullah, in which Karzai would remain President but Abdullah...
Tracy Kidder ’67– Pulitzer Prize winner, literary journalist, and Harvard graduate–has been writing award-winning non-fiction for the past 35 years. While many of his books center on life in his native Massachusetts, his most recent projects have led him to Haiti and now to Burundi, where he traveled to research his latest work, “Strength in What Remains.” Published just over a month ago, it chronicles the life of Deogratias Niyizonkiza, a 24-year-old medical student from Burundi. Niyozonkoza fled his country...
...Pasricha ’04. Now, as an investment banker at UBS, she continues to run the program. Meghan plans to attend business school, and hopes to create and run her own socially responsible company. Like those before her, Rebecca P. Buckwalter-Poza ’10, a 2008 winner, is more interested in public policy. She worked on the 2008 US presidential election and for the deputy press secretary for the Democratic National Committee. She’s also worked for political strategist James Carville and contributed to his new book. “I know that I want...
...whether I win or O'Neal does (you can read both essays and vote on a winner at time.com/Shaqvsjoel I beseech you to judge both pieces as if they were written by scrawny, long-haired guys with new babies, whose main method of making a living depends on this), I have learned from O'Neal. Confidence, even if it's faked, makes life more interesting. Instead of wondering if he can write, swim, act, rap, get an M.B.A., be a cop, wrestle, fight in mixed martial arts or give himself ridiculous nicknames, he does it. And the results...
...think everyone performed well,” Cao said. “Especially the freshman—they stepped it up.”Also in Flight C, junior Agnes Sibilski went 0-2, losing to the fourth seed in the first-round and the eventual consolation draw winner in her next match. Another freshman, Sophie Chang, won the Flight D championship, downing Kristina Koprcina of Marshall in the finals 6-4, 6-2. In the semifinals, Koprcina ousted Harvard freshman Alex Lehman 7-6, 4-6, 6-4 to prevent an all-Crimson final. Overall, the Crimson dominated...