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...School’s Human Rights Program brought in Khan, a 1979 Law School alum, to discuss her new book, “The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights...
...remoteness from Beijing and the difficulty of governing it. That challenge centers on the Uighurs, who comprise the region's majority population and claim a linguistic and cultural heritage that is markedly different from that of the rest of China. And while six decades of communist Chinese rule have brought tremendous prosperity to some, modernization has also raised a profound disconnect between the region's old inhabitants and newer arrivals. Encouraged by Beijing, millions of Han Chinese have migrated west, imbued with a state-sanctioned spirit of manifest destiny. As skyscrapers loom where bazaars once stood, many Uighurs see themselves...
...Deanna Frankowski, the Beck fan mentioned in your article, is "sick and tired of being ignored"? Give me a break! I had to wait through eight years of an Administration that brought this country to the brink. Frankowski should sit down quietly while the rest of us get to the task of cleaning up Bush's mess. Besides, this health-care debate isn't about those over 30; it's about the millions of uninsured, recently graduated young people saddled with loans we can't imagine paying off, who are sick and tired of living in an abyss created...
...brought with him some new ideas. For Interbank to thrive, he reasoned, it had to be globally competitive. So the company set about benchmarking top performers--Southwest Airlines, Ritz-Carlton and, of course, a few banks--to understand what it would take. "We started learning, and little by little we started recruiting," he says. Now there are some 50 U.S.-trained Peruvian M.B.A.s on staff...
...we’re attacking a lot better,” Nichols said. “I think that it was about finding the right combination of players and just sort of finding that mentality that we need to win, and I think that the Ivy League [schedule] definitely brought...