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There is perhaps no corner of the Internet so ebullient this week as the Facebook group in which the proud coterie of the Class of 2012 have begun to meet. These new victors of the high-school slaughtering grounds, these new members of the educational elect congregate here to share their varying shades of ecstasy at the news of their admission. It is a happy affair: they revel in the stories of their classmates-to-be and swap anecdotes about the euphoria of receiving an email with news they had been waiting, in some cases, a decade to hear...
...Learning from the Universities I exhaled a profound sigh of relief upon reading "Class Dismissed" and learning that some Japanese universities have finally begun to open their doors to foreigners [March 17]. Although superficially Japan has the aura of being international, desperate measures are needed to educate the populace into accepting people from diverse national, racial and ethnic backgrounds. Such openness will be instrumental in pulling Japan away from its old legacy of national seclusion. Mari Oka, Tokyo
...this issue, sort of, by calling for the creation of a Conduct of Business Regulatory Agency with the sole responsibility of making financial businesses behave decorously. Far more catchy and to the point, though, is Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren's year-old proposal--which Hillary Clinton has recently begun talking up on the campaign trail--for a Financial Product Safety Commission. It would be modeled on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which keeps exploding toasters off the market. Such a body might stand in the way of financial innovation. But for consumers, that wouldn't necessarily be such...
...Californication” signal some sort of monumental sea change in the qualities television viewers value in their sitcom characters, or in the type and quality of content that will be produced in the future. But it is clear that at least one network has begun to do something completely different in their programming. In my book, that’s a good thing.—Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...
...Harare township of Warren Park, for the first time that anyone can remember, political graffiti has begun to appear on clapperboard walls and the backs of tin sheds. Alongside election posters for Robert Mugabe, unseen hands scrawl messages to the President. "Chinja Maitiro" reads one: "Change Your Way." Another declares: "Zuakwana," meaning "Enough." Nearby, a picture of the 84-year-old Zimbabwean leader has been defaced with blood-red tears and underneath is written the word: "Cheat." These are ominous signs for the despot who has ruled Zimbabwe for 28 years. But there are other, more urgent ones emerging elsewhere...