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Reflections on Sandy Hook

12.16.12

BY MARK DIAZ TRUMAN I heard about the Connecticut shooting early in the day, but the full effect of it didn’t hit me until I got home late on Friday night. It was too much to process, too close to the Oregon shooting on Tuesday that left two dead and one wounded at a Happy […]

Fairness and Justice

Libya’s Compromise

12.10.12

BY ALISON LAPORTE-OSHIRO How the Obama Administration handled the Bengazi attack in September—and whether it provided sufficient security—were fiercely debated issues during the Presidential election. Three months later, the election is over but the controversy smolders on. The current target is U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, who is believed to be one […]

Beyond Just Credit

12.10.12

BY SHLOKA NATH Driving from Rae Bareli to Amethi, two districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), you will be hard pressed to find evidence of India’s strident economic progress. Everywhere you turn, roads are terrible, electricity is sparse and poverty and destitution run deep. With more than 200 million people, UP […]

Development and Economic Growth

The Problem of Abundant Content — Or Why There Should Be Simpsons Clips on YouTube

12.10.12

BY ALEX REMINGTON In the English-speaking world, I have seen it written, the two most widely quoted sources are the King James Bible and the collected works of William Shakespeare, two Elizabethan corpora that together helped crystallize English into its present form. In the past four hundred years, no other works have had anything close […]

Petraeus & Broadwell: The Secret is Not the Answer

12.9.12

By Irene Shih Last month’s response to the Petraeus-Broadwell scandal reminds me yet again of our human fascination with narrative hindsight, and of our human incapacity to capture anything real about a life. By the time you’re reading this article, the scandal will have retired from the spotlight – in just three short weeks, going […]

OPINION: Parenting is an act of heroism

12.9.12

By Amelie de Montchalin When I acknowledged that I was admitted to attend the Harvard Kennedy School two-year MPA Program six months ago, I felt first extremely lucky – and somewhat anxious. Indeed, moving to Cambridge would necessarily imply numerous changes for my husband and our little 15-month girl Bertille. To make these changes livable, […]

Power outage leaves international students amused

12.9.12

By Citizen Staff Thursday Nov. 29 was a challenging evening for students at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). A two-hour-long power outage affected most of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, causing cancellation of key events and disruption of routine activities. With HKS running on emergency power like most other Harvard facilities, the buildings had […]

Holiday treat: Oatmeal date bars

12.9.12

By Rebecca Yang These irresistible bars are incredibly easy to make and will be sure to become a popular holiday treat. Use the best-quality dates you can find! Fresh Medjool dates are my favorite and they work perfectly in this recipe. But don’t be afraid to get creative and substitute the dates with any other […]

OPINION: Let me guilt you into going to class

12.9.12

By Brenda Ritson In the final weeks of any semester, I bet almost every HKS professor would be hard pressed to report that his class continues to have full attendance.  After all, it is the time of year when papers of significant length are due, group projects loom, final presentations near and deadlines rapidly sneak […]

Winter break to-do’s in Boston and Cambridge

12.9.12

By Anthony Barrows With finals bearing down on us, you may not be thinking about all the wintertime fun to be had around Boston and Cambridge. Although you may be dreading the cold and ice and snow, New England is a fine place to spend the months when Persephone returns to Hades,’ so embrace. Below […]

OPINION: What Broadwell-Petraeus tells us about HKS

12.9.12

By Alexi White At HKS, prestige is the currency that matters most. Fame can get you access to the inner circle, but beware the fall from grace. It’s on your way down that the knives come out. This is the principal lesson to be learned from our school’s complex history with Paula Broadwell, the former-PhD-candidate-turned-best-selling-author. […]

Occupy Wall Street: Reflections and the way ahead

12.9.12

By Balakrishnan Madhava What follows is an interview with Richard Parker, a lecturer in public policy and senior fellow at the Shorenstein Center. A former economic advisor to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (2009-2011), Parker has worked as both a journalist and a philanthropist. His full biography can be found on the Harvard Kennedy School […]

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