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...foreign students have joined the Crimson, they have often enriched it immensely: “Foreign Intelligence,” Pierpaolo Barbieri ‘09’s reasoned and enlightened column, substantially enhanced the editorial page during its run. Barbieri drew our attention to regions of the world usually ignored by headline news and shied away from superficial, poorly informed analysis of the kind that followed the Mumbai attacks...
...Egypt to the southwest. The territory is 360 km2 with a population of over one and a half million. Half of the population is under age 15 and four-fifths is under age 50. Gaza has the fifth-highest rate of population growth of any territory in the world. Unsurprisingly, it is among the most densely populated places on the planet, with the Strip’s refugee camps reaching 74,000 people per km2 (compared to less than 30,000 per km2 in Manhattan). For years the rate of in and out migration to and from...
With the ECAC Championships looming next weekend, the Harvard women’s tennis team used Saturday’s match against Boston College as a chance to show the tennis world what the young team can do, cruising to a 6-1 victory...
...begin with, it holds more than $1 trillion in U.S. assets, mainly in U.S. Treasuries. No other country or entity in the world could absorb those assets if China wanted to sell them, and with China's currency value pegged to the dollar, any massive sale would lead to a steep decline in the Chinese currency and economy. China's holding of U.S. debt is leverage only in a theoretical world where it could dump its U.S. assets or stop buying more. What's more, even a hobbled America is the world's largest economy and the most significant market...
Karabell is the author of Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It (Simon & Schuster 2009) and president of River Twice Research (rivertwice.com...