Paul Horak


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Becoming Global Citizens

I believe it was Thomas Paine who once said, “The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.” Words to live by.


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Super 8-J.J. Abrams

Set in 1979, J.J. Abram’s Super 8 is filled with things that some audiences will never have heard of but others will remember these relics of bygone days with great fondness and nostalgia


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The mentor is worth it

In a couple of weeks I will start taking a computer science course at Harvard, just a few minutes walk away from where I work at the National Bureau of Economic Research.


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No parent left behind

Because it is college graduation season, it is easy to forget that much of the success youth will experience in the future is not directly linked to their higher education.


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OPINION

Another tsunami

In the coming decade, Japan will have to face the consequences of not just one, but two, tsunamis: the recent March 11 wave that devastated the Tohoku region of northeast Honshu and another that...


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How to shoot yourself in the foot

If you want to look for an example of how to hobble into the future, you need look no further than your own backyard. Chances are your governor or policymakers are staring down, sizing up and...


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Living our values

It would appear that the events in Egypt over the last three weeks have opened the floodgates for change in the Middle East.

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