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...Home Again Re "Why do so many of India's stars live abroad?" [Feb. 13]: I applaud the essay by Vir Sanghvi, editorial director of the Hindustan Times, in which he asks why Indians are more successful outside India than at home. Alas, a similar problem plagues Nigeria. Those born in the 1970s who left to study in Britain and the U.S. now want to return home and apply the skills and business practices learned in the West. But their enthusiasm is met with scorn, suspicion and envy. I wonder whether Nigerians feel betrayed or fear the Western work ethic...
...should be delayed until the middle of sophomore so that freshmen are no longer unduly constrained in their course selections.While some of these proposed reforms seem inconsequential and distant to the undergraduates of the present, others are far more immediate: financial aid should help to pay for summer experiences abroad, and the student earnings expectations for the summertime, which help to determine financial aid packages, should be lowered to permit more summer travel. All of this should be done this very semester and without any delay, because students are as desperate now as they ever will be for more opportunities...
...Houses, dances to hip hop at first-year social events, and fools around on the sidelines of home football games. More substantively, he has launched a long overdue review of the undergraduate curriculum, taught popular courses each year, implemented a far-reaching financial aid initiative, and expanded study abroad opportunities. In many ways, Summers is their president. I have to remind myself that most current Harvard undergraduates are too young to even remember Cornel West. If there is one lesson to be learned from all of this, it’s that faculty and students perceive Summers very differently because...
...more fanciful Oscar theories addresses this question: Which film represents the home team? The majority of Academy members live in or near Los Angeles, and actors make up the largest voting contingent. A long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that...
...That would be Haggis, the Canadian abroad. "After living in L.A. half my life," he says, "I now feel like an outsider in both communities. And that's a good thing in my line of work. With Crash, I thought it important to be a part of that world--because I wanted to look at my fears, my intolerances, not those bad people over there--yet I needed to be far enough away to see what most affluent people in L.A. will tell you doesn't really exist. And I don't mean just affluent white people. Class...