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...will India do it? The key to sustained 9% growth, says Rajat Nag, the managing director general of the Asian Development Bank, "is governance." Behind that new buzzword lies a fundamental truth. The successful modernization of societies, it turns out, is not just a question of economics - of getting the macroeconomic fundamentals right and letting market forces and the private sector do the rest. It depends also on having effective, clean governments, at every level down to the village, which do not waste economic largesse or appropriate it for the use of their own politicians and officials. That has long...
...notice a difference in the playing or attitude of American, European, and Asian orchestras...
...Asian orchestras tend to be more methodical, but at the same time, a little heavy-handed. They have the relatively meticulous, engineered quality you might expect. American orchestras are much more relaxed...
...with social mentality. It could be anything from language to just the way each person’s education in the larger sense has shaped their minds and their sensibility. When I listen on the radio I can almost always tell if someone’s European, Asian, or American—American’s a little harder; if it’s a guy or a girl playing. Once you become somewhat proficient at any endeavor, simply by looking at a work in your field, you can tell who’s doing it and that person?...
...East Asian studies concentrator Rachel A. Esplin ’09 said she was pleasantly surprised upon learning of her induction via e-mail on Monday...