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...Bhagat recently for dinner in Mumbai. He brought with him his assistant, a chatty, young aspiring actress whose main responsibility is answering the thousand or so fan letters he receives every week. They were preparing for his next speaking engagement, an address at a university in Baroda in western India where he expected a crowd of at least 8,000. It is hard to imagine any author - besides, say, J.K. Rowling - as the object of so much adulation. In his rumpled white shirt, and with a slight paunch and wire-rimmed glasses, Bhagat looks much more like an overworked investment...
When President Calvin Coolidge delivered his 1928 State of the Union address, he noted that America had never "met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time." Americans had a lot to be proud of back then: World War I was thoroughly behind them, radio had been invented, and automobiles were growing cheaper and more popular. Sure, the disparity between the rich and the poor had widened within the past decade, but Americans could now buy goods on installment plans - a relatively new concept - and families could afford more than ever before. Stocks were...
During the “State of the Nine”—the part of the proceedings when delegates take the podium to address their graduate communities’ successes, challenges, and initiatives—the issues of inadequate graduate housing, student advocacy, and mentorship consistently arose...
...program to answer the growing number of questions she has fielded during her five years managing comments and queries. According to the HCL Web site, students submit an average of 750 messages each month through the HCL site, the Harvard Libraries site, and the HOLLIS reference e-mail address. “We expect there is definitely a need for this,” she said. Despite Kelley-Millburn’s expectations, few students use, or even know about, Ask Us Live! Still in its pilot stage, the program has received a “disappointing” number...
...does so with a healthy dose of oversight. For example, since 2001, state law has mandated that a veterinarian be on duty to examine greyhounds before and after each race, that dog droppings must be removed daily from the kennel area, and that the state racing commission should address every complaint of greyhound abuse. Between 2005 and 2006, just 0.15 percent of this state’s racing dogs left the track with an injury—a proportion more than ten times smaller than were injured in girls’ high school softball in the same year. With this...