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	<title>The Citizen</title>
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		<title>It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! March Madness: The Best Thing In American Sports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks from now, most of us will be spending our spring break traveling the world, relaxing at home, or cramming to finish a PAE. Whether we are living it up or kicking ourselves for six months of procrastination, we can stay connected through a special event: the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament. Commonly referred [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harvardcitizen.com/2010/03/11/it%e2%80%99s-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-march-madness-the-best-thing-in-american-sports/</link>
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		<title>Citizen Conversation With&#8230;Tim McCarthy</title>
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Interview conducted by Matt Bieber, MPP’11
You recently discussed “the future of protest” at Harvard Thinks Big, and you exhorted Harvard students to take up the spirit of protesters past. Could you summarize your views?
 The question I asked was, “Does protest have a future?”…I work on the history of social movements, particularly the history of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harvardcitizen.com/2010/03/11/citizen-conversation-withtim-mccarthy/</link>
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		<title>German Conference Highlights Global Issues</title>
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From East German resistance to defense of the arts, the Harvard German conference held from Feb. 19-20 offered a unique chance for students to think about global challenges of the coming decade with new perspectives.

While the conference was originally founded to make use of Harvard’s vast amount of intellectual resources to discuss solutions to German [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harvardcitizen.com/2010/03/10/german-conference-highlights-global-issues/</link>
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		<title>Changing the Campaign (and reporting?) Game</title>
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On March 2, the JFK, Jr. Forum sharpened its focus on the 2008 presidential campaign with an evening featuring Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, noted journalists and authors of Game Change - Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime.

The discussion, moderated by Boston Globe reporter Susan Milligan and co-sponsored [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harvardcitizen.com/2010/03/10/changing-the-campaign-and-reporting-game/</link>
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		<title>HKS Visit by Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson</title>
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On February 22, former U.S. treasury secretary Hank Paulson sat in front of a crowded audience in the forum to discuss his views on the financial crisis with HKS Professor David Gergen. Affectionately known as “The Hammer” while a star offensive lineman at Dartmouth, Paulson graduated from Harvard Business School in 1970. He then served [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harvardcitizen.com/2010/03/10/hks-visit-by-former-us-treasury-secretary-hank-paulson/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Next?</title>
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Despite unemployment rates and the current hiring climate, graduating HKS students have much to be optimistic about as they begin their job quest.

Many two-year degree students entered the Kennedy School in 2008 expecting to be courted by numerous employers after they graduate. But they are now experiencing a rude awakening as they watch their friends and even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harvardcitizen.com/2010/03/10/whats-next/</link>
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		<title>Letter to the Editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Editors of the Harvard Kennedy Citizen,
The earthquake in Haiti has shocked and saddened us all. We have been inspired, though, by the outpouring of support from the Harvard Community. At the same time, relief and reconstruction are currently entering a critical stage: while concerned actors must continue to mobilize support, the challenge becomes to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harvardcitizen.com/2010/03/10/letter-to-the-editor-2/</link>
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		<title>Scholar’s Unacceptable Call to Curb Palestinian Births</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs sparked outrage with comments that have reverberated across the university and beyond. Speaking to a conference in Israel, Martin Kramer said that Western nations ought to halt food aid to Gaza in order to stem population growth. Lest there be lack of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harvardcitizen.com/2010/03/09/scholar%e2%80%99s-unacceptable-call-to-curb-palestinian-births/</link>
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		<title>How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is February 12, 1980. Over the past decade, the United States has seen stagflation, gas lines, a president resign in disgrace, a catastrophic war end, and, exactly one hundred days before, 53 Americans taken hostage in Iran. The 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid began the next day. The U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harvardcitizen.com/2010/03/09/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-olympics/</link>
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		<title>The SIF Scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The auction held recently to support this summer’s Student Internship Fund (SIF) was a fun affair. Attendees competed for classy stuff, and first-year MPPs Casey Osterkamp and Meaghan Jennison did a great job as organizers. By all appearances, the auction went off without a hitch.
Except for one. A big one.
Almost every person bidding was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://harvardcitizen.com/2010/03/09/the-sif-scandal/</link>
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