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...before. When a few bureaucrats and economists pushed through the 1991 economic reforms, no one thought the "license Raj" would ever fall. At the time, the political decisions behind the reforms were unpopular, and its possibilities were not yet apparent. A few prominent businessmen formed a group - the Bombay Club - to oppose the reforms, surely unaware that they would one day be among their biggest beneficiaries. As incomplete as those reforms have been, they have brought India into its new place in the world. The attacks were an acknowledgement of that. The targets chosen were not just Mumbai landmarks...
...center" Mitt Romney and the libertarian "faux-cons" of the Republican Party. But its emotional heart is a portrait of what might be called Huckabee's America, a place where long-haul truckers lead campaign rallies, Chuck Norris is a political kingmaker and everyone shops at Sam's Club. Huckabee still predicts a populist revolution in which regular, God-fearing people will take Washington by storm. In the meantime, he is searching for his "angel with a ring." He wants to give it back...
...people who surf,” he described the next image, without missing a beat. Such was the nature of The B.S. Contest—with B.S. standing for “business speaking”—sponsored by the Business School’s Public Speaking Club. The club hosted the final round of the event, with a format based on an improv game, for the first time yesterday. Over 40 people auditioned in the preliminary round, but only eight made it through to compete in the finals. Each of the contestants had seven minutes to present...
Ensconced in the hallowed halls of the Faculty Club yesterday afternoon, Harvard’s classics professors unanimously approved a proposal that would open the concentration’s musty doors to more students, marking the department’s largest curricular overhaul for undergraduates in over 30 years...
...There is awareness that you can no longer expect that students will come in with a basic grounding in Latin or Greek or both,” said Koven-Matasy, who is also the president of the Classical Club...