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...course, résumés are genuinely important down the line, and a rewarding college experience in many cases doesn’t preclude coming away with a good one. But students’ too-common error is to excessively focus on the final product, and unwittingly abandon other crucial aspects of college life. Even within the competitive environment at Harvard, it’s essential that activities and classes be treated as rare opportunities for intellectual and personal growth. If we do otherwise, we may not drown with Narcissus, but we will end up facing the world with...
...down. "Mumbai has been a bad scene for so many years," says Sheetal Javeri, an administration professional, emerging from CST, the railway terminal struck by terrorists on Wednesday night. "But the government has taken no steps. If five-star hotels can be targeted so easily, where is the common man to go?" She has little option but to use the commuter rail line despite the attacks. "But that doesn't mean I don't fear for my safety or my family's safety," she says. "They still don't know how many terrorists there were and how many may still...
...While censure for the government is a common theme in the wake of terrorist attacks, some believe that Mumbai's people will have to lead a movement for change. Asit Bhansali is a financial adviser who has lived in his Marine Drive home for more than 40 years. "Normally, Mumbai has a dog-eat-dog mentality. There's no emotion; it's all about making money," he says. "But this time, the threat is too serious and too real ... Now we need change. We need to look beyond 'my life, my family, my business.' Someone's got to push this...
What do Silvio Berlusconi and a communist transvestite have in common? That may sound like the set-up to a bad joke, but the search for a serious answer could just bring some focus to the bizarre spectacle of Italian public life...
...able to afford a fire. You have to be just as poor not to afford salt and sugar. And you have to have ruinous public sanitation not to be able to filter out the feces of an infected person from the water supply (ingesting fecal matter is the most common way for cholera to spread). So it is a stark indication of how far Zimbabwe has fallen that a country that used to export food is now in the grip of a cholera epidemic that the World Health Organization (WHO) says has claimed 412 lives and infected 9,908 people...