Without a Hitch
Pundit Christopher Hitchens discusses the war on terrorism
On the Newsstand:United Nations
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United States intervention in the beleaguered state of Libya will only heighten American concerns on a wide spectrum of issues.
Video: “The Millenium Development Goals: Where Are We?”
October 24 is United Nations Day! The Millennium Development Goals were set up by the United Nations in 2000. With five years left to go, what progress has the international community made in achieving these goals? Featuring: Nicole Delaney is a fund portfolio manager for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. She was assigned to coordinate the ... Read More
Steven Levitt’s Solution to Climate Change
Professor Steven D. Levitt, an eminent popular economist from the University of Chicago and co-author of the widely successful books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics gave a lecture here on Monday. Despite being sparsely publicized, the lecture attracted around 200 people from around the campus, an obvious testament to the popularity of Levitt’s unorthodox economics style. While I was impressed with Professor ... Read More
Harvard Model UN: Self-congratulations or a glimpse at how the world could be run?
Last weekend, Harvard’s Model United Nations conference for college students took place for the 56th time, drawing thousands of students from all over the world to Boston Park Plaza. As an uber-important (or not) Assistant Director to the E.U. committee, I got to observe first hand how students acted as delegates from countries they didn’t come from and to debate ... Read More
Summer 2009
Urban America Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 2009. Letter from the Editor The Ten-Year Plan IAN MERRIFIELD Daring to end homelessness The Future of Urban Education Tiffany wen and jyoti jasrasaria The impact of new innovation on urban school systems Cities Without Limits Chris danello and ashley fabrizio How long-term factors drive municipal economies A New Approach to a Chronic ... Read More
More Secretary than General?
Ban Ki-moon’s first two years at the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, has cultivated many nicknames over the course of his long and illustrious career as a diplomat. As the foreign minister of South Korea, he was called Ban-chusa, a moniker meaning both “bureaucrat” and “administrative-clerk.” His colleagues in the ministry praised him for ... Read More
Natural Law
Managing the global resource of water “The next world war will be over water,” the former Vice President of the World Bank, Ismail Serageldin, once proclaimed. The very nature of water as a natural resource lends itself to conflict — it is a universal necessity, and often flows from sovereignty to sovereignty, defying ownership. Considering these circumstances, combined with increasing ... Read More
Identity Crisis
Afghanistan and the reevaluation of NATO According to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s founding documents, member nations “are determined to… promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area.” Almost sixty years later, NATO is mired in longstanding and unprecedented involvement in Afghanistan, a nation far outside the organization’s geographic sphere. Founded during the Cold War era, NATO’s original purpose ... Read More
