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...motivate Harvard’s action, the investment of each of these institutions certainly points to a broad recognition in the greater academic community that this region deserves our attention and study. That attention should take the form of broader course offerings, more grant money for research and study-abroad initiatives, an increase in the number tenured faculty, and the hiring of more visiting and non-tenured professors. Currently, FAS offers roughly 15 courses that cover regional studies of South Asia, many of which fall under the auspices of the Core Curriculum. The only survey course focused exclusively on modern...
...Harvard and its student body have propelled such varied causes as the Sudanese divestment movement, the problem of gender inequality in the academy, admissions reform, and workers’ rights to higher profiles in global discourse—concretely advancing human flourishing and social justice at home and abroad. It is difficult to come to terms with this immense privilege that Harvard students possess in influencing change because it requires an honest confrontation with responsibility, collaboration, and sacrifice—three values that are decidedly incongruent with the mass-marketed “College!” ethos...
...backroom Liberal establishment hungered for as the race began following former prime minister Paul Martin's humiliating defeat at the hands of Conservative leader Stephen Harper. For one thing, it would be impossible for opponents to place Ignatieff anywhere near the sponsorship scandal since he had been living abroad, in the United Kingdom and the U.S., since 1978. As well, Ignatieff's background - son of one of Canada's most renowned diplomats, a Russian aristocratic ancestry and a five-year term as director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy - was impeccable...
...Even the deaths of prominent Russians at home and abroad is being twisted to reinforce an argument that there is an enemy out there looking to hurt Russia, and that Putin's vigilance remains indispensable...
...breakfast the following morning, Anupam Yog, a consultant at India Brand Equity Foundation, a quasi-government body behind selling India and Indian companies abroad, acknowledged the problems. On a recent visit to Brazil with Singh he was taken by the high crime rates in Brazilian cities. "That's what income disparity can lead to and we need to avoid that here," he says. He agrees that India's success story is still full of qualifications: hundreds of millions still surviving on less than a dollar a day, tens of millions still illiterate and unschooled. "We don't shy away from...