As some of you know, my partner, T, has been serving as a co-senior editor for the Kennedy School Review. The KSR is a student-run publication based out of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and will feature journalistic and commentary works by the students themselves. Rather than post a bunch of links for you to flip back and forth, and to save you some time, T gave me the go-ahead to just post the entry he made to his blog for today.

I know that each week I welcome over a dozen new visitors to this site from all over the world. Additionally, I know that there are many frequent visitors and some solid daily visitors to the blog. I urge all of you to make the effort and buy a copy of the journal…T explains why with a much better perspective than I could offer. The price is right and ships internationally as well. They make a great gift and an even better addition to one’s personal or school library. I can attest to the countless hours T spent working on this journal and the time has come to showcase his hard effort as part of a large team that brings to you the 2007-2008 edition of the Kennedy School Review. Here is T’s blog entry for the day. Enjoy and buy a copy, you cheep-o’s!

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Yes, it’s the Harvard Kennedy School Review, the Kennedy School’s public policy journal! Yours truly worked as this year’s co-senior editor of features and commentaries and we’re just coming out with our issue for the year. The KSR staff has come up a product that we are all proud of. All the pieces were written and produced by Kennedy School students (and a couple of alumni) and we crafted them so that they would be appealing and accessible even to people outside of our own little school. (Although we would like to think of ourselves as the New Yorker-slash-Foreign Affairs of student journals. Yes, we’re a very ambitious bunch of people. We aim high!) We’re a public policy journal but we also peppered this volume with some humor and off the wall pieces.

Have you ever thought about where the cut flowers you buy at the supermarket come from? (”Is the Bloom Off the Rose?” by Nora Ferm)

Are you interested to know where the love-hate relationship between the US and Russia is headed? (”The New Russia: Friend or Foe?” by Katya Gratcheva)

Do you want to know how religious rhetoric is being used in the 2008 presidential campaign? (”Duck Hunting in Heaven” by Emily Cadik)

How about honor killings in Germany? Hungarian presence in Afghanistan? How personal stories can facilitate immigration reform?

Have you heard of Michelle Rhee, Yon Goicoechea, Soraya Salti, Van Jones or Eboo Patel? Well, you will know a whole lot more about them after you read our Rising Stars of Public Policy profiles. We also have interviews with Donna Brazile, Chap Petersen, and Luis Soares.

Do you want to know how actual toddlers–well, with the help of their HKS dads–reviewed Bill O’Reilly’s new children’s book? About the economics of parking tickets?

The KSR staff also looked at the idiosyncrasies of public transport systems all over the world, came up with some new political terms to emerge from Campaign ‘08 (if ‘04 brought us ’swiftboated,’ for ‘08 we predict it’s going to be ‘caucus-blocked’), and made predictions for up to the year 3000.

(Not only did I oversee, together with my amazing co-editor, TC, the features and commentaries section and edited some articles, I also wrote a short piece on policy gadgets, contributed a couple of artwork, and worked on the layout. I also solicited–which later on turned into nagging–the introduction from CNN regular, Anderson Cooper 360 blogger, and White House veteran, David Gergen. My fingerprints are all over this journal, people! Don’t worry, I washed my hands. And you can wipe them off later.)

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