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...Indian cuisine long ago surpassed fish-and-chips as Britain's most popular restaurant food. Or, at least, "Anglo-Indian" - England's most popular "Indian" dish, chicken tikka masala, is actually a British invention, since exported to the land that inspired it. Indian property and hotel developers borrow the lexicon of their English counterparts, using terms such as park, mews or estate in the names of new upscale complexes. A hint of Britain sells, it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How India 'Colonized' Britain | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...income families, raising the grants $750 above their present ceiling. It is the specificity of this bill that tries to help students avoid private loans that is essential to its overall merit. To persuade students that have turned to the costlier private loans because they are able to borrow more money, Kennedy’s bill also raises the amount a student may borrow in a federal loan for a financially dependent undergraduate by $1,000, and by $2,000 for an independent undergraduate...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: One Step at a Time | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...make it very expensive--or you could just let them know how much they use in comparison with their neighbors. When that bit of information was added to electric bills in San Marcos, Calif., heavy users quickly lowered their consumption, even though no one had asked them to. To borrow a term from behavioral economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein, the good people of San Marcos had been nudged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lured Toward the Right Choice | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

Alan Greenspan The king of easy money and little oversight kept the economy greased with low interest rates, but now the former Fed chairman is answerable for having made lending too available, especially to people who really couldn't afford to borrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wheel of Blame | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...there and doing it.”While coaches and teammates will look to Madick to be a reliable pitcher who will get out there and do it, she has a strong unit that is more than capabale of backing her up. That’s good, because, to borrow her own words, no pitcher ever won a game—let alone a second Ivy championship—by herself. —Staff writer Julia R. Senior can be reached at jrsenior@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hitter's Worst Nightmare | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

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