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...contrast Gandhi and Singh cut with the typical Indian politician is striking. India regularly comes in the bottom half of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, tied with Moldova and Mali at 88th out of 158 countries last year. This January, in its Mood of the Nation issue, the weekly newsmagazine India Today found less than half of those surveyed expressed any trust in their MPs. So low is India's opinion of its political leaders, in fact, that a new college, the M.I.T. School of Government, opened last September in the central city of Pune with...
...Aviv to Ramallah was remarkably fast and easy. We encountered one checkpoint between the two cities, and we were cleared to pass as soon as the driver told the soldiers in Hebrew that we were American. We reached Ramallah in less than an hour—in stark contrast to the three hours it took to travel from Ramallah to Nablus (a distance of 30km) two days later...
...very un-masculine,” Lee says. He points out that few Asian men play for American professional sports teams. And in movies, he says, Asian men still only play two roles: the kung fu fighter and the angry store owner. Asian women, in contrast, are portrayed as having increasingly varied and prominent roles, Lee says.“It’s my goal to make the Asian man sexy again,” he jokes.Data on interracial marriage suggests that few Korean-American men cross ethnic lines—at least at the altar.While 24.3 percent...
...Primordial Oohs” and “The Dinosaurs”—sang about Viagra and masochism. “I think you can tell where our withering minds have come to rest,” joked a Krok alumnus onstage. In contrast, the younger alumni and current Kroks sang innocent love songs as they leaped and danced across the stage. “In the older groups, you see more standing and singing, there’s nothing remarkable like tap dancing,” says Ken S. Williams...
...stood out, in a sense, as a contrast to Harvard College, the Law School, the Business School, and all the other medical schools in the country,” Mayer said. “It’s an internal adjustment in the way that the process takes place, so as not to make the Medical School and the University in general vulnerable to any outside forces...