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In Afghanistan, Kerry Keeps US Goals Modest: by Allison, Graham T., Jr.; Publisher: Boston Globe; Publication Type: Op-ed; PRESIDENT OBAMA confronts the most fateful foreign policy decision so far of his administration. Rapidly deteriorating security in Afghanistan, the post-election political crisis in Kabul,...; Published Date: November 2009 More

A Job Too Big for One Man: by Patterson, Orlando; Publisher: New York Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; IN the year since his election, as he has since he first appeared on the national stage, Barack Obama has embodied the fundamental paradoxes of race in America: that we live in a still racially...; Published Date: November 2009 More

Hello from Havana: Nuanced but unmistakable stirrings of change in Cuba: by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Publisher: Harvard Magazine; Publication Type: Op-ed; President Raúl Castro’s principal contribution thus far to the lives of ordinary Cubans has been that television soap operas now start on time. He often reminds his fellow citizens of this...; Published Date: August 2009 More

A Fairer Credit Card? Priceless: by Bubb, Ryan; Kaufman, Alex; Publisher: New York Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; Industry representatives would have you believe that the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act enacted last month spells the end of the credit card as we know it. President...; Published Date: June 2009 More

Hoopes winners recognized for outstanding scholarship: by Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Publication Type: Press Release; Five Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Associates were among several Harvard College seniors who received the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research this year. The winners...; Published Date: June 2009 More

India returns to the Grand Old Party: by Varshney, Ashutosh; Publisher: Financial Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; It is impossible to deny that all of us underestimated the resurgence of India’s Congress party. It is also equally clear that undaunted by soaring heat and a long and exhausting campaign, roughly...; Published Date: May 2009 More

The Way We Live Now: Diminished Returns: by Ferguson, Niall; Publisher: New York Times Magazine; Publication Type: Newspaper Article; If financial crises were distributed along a bell curve—like traffic accidents or people’s heights—really big ones wouldn’t happen very often. When the hedge fund Long-Term Capital...; Published Date: May 2009 More

Diversity in diversity: by Varshney, Ashutosh; Publisher: Hindustan Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; Two points about the current elections ought to be noted. First, a rather large number of parties, campaigning for votes, may give the appearance of chaos on the surface, but there is a dominant...; Published Date: April 2009 More

"What Just Happened? What’s Next?" An interdisciplinary examination of the current economic crisis: by Walker, Ruth; Publisher: Harvard University Gazette; Publication Type: Newspaper Article; You might think of the little bits of good news that came out last week as the macroeconomic equivalent of the first crocuses of spring. There was the heartening word that initial jobless claims are...; Published Date: April 2009 More

Eighteen faculty, affiliates named to 2009 class of AAAS Fellows: Publisher: Harvard University Gazette; Publication Type: Newspaper Article; The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) today (April 20) announced the election of leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector....; Published Date: April 2009 More

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