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...concur with essayist Alex Perry that India's progress is staggering in its magnitude and its one-dimensional quality. In evolving into a nuclear power worthy of American attention, India has become somehow detached from the person in the street. In day-to-day India-with an entrenched, corrupt bureaucracy, only an intermittent supply of clean water and millions of people lacking basic health care and sanitation-the new international developments seem impossibly far removed. India requires first the basics of life and then transparency and accountability in local and national government. As Perry writes, it will take generations before...
...report on farmers' protests throughout the Chinese countryside elicited heartfelt sympathy from readers who are appalled by that government's corruption, land grabs and failure to provide basic services. But there was also alarm over what a destabilized China might mean for its neighbors "Inside the pitchfork rebellion" [March 13] suggested there may be a revolution in the making in China. What will happen if 900 million oppressed farmers rise up to get justice and revenge? It would be naive to applaud such a development. History shows us that revolutions never lead to what is hoped for. Instead, chaos spreads...
...king instructed his daughter Holika to hold Prahled in a fire, Sandesara added, but Lord Vishnu ultimately came to Prahled’s aid, allowing him to survive while Holika burned to death. “Holi shows the triumph of good over evil and the innocent over the corrupt,” Sandesara said. Alka R. Tandon ’07, who attended the event, hailed it as a success. “It was really great to see people of diverse backgrounds come together,” Tandon said. “It was good to finally...
...than two months after the detainment, Bakshi said that the experience has affected him in a number of ways. He said it made him realize how fortunate he is to be able to speak publicly about the experience, especially compared to Zimbabweans who “must endure a corrupt system in constant fear of being harassed for what they say or think...
...Macheath (Brian Ballard), known as Mack the Knife, as he robs, cheats and womanizes his way into our hearts. His life intersects those of the miserly Mr. and Mrs. Peachum (Nathan Troup and Tracy Reynolds) the resentful prostitute Jenny Diver (Karoun A. Demirjian ’03), and the corrupt cop Tiger Brown (Nicholas N. Commins ’09) and his daughter Lucy (Kathleen A. Stetson ’03), but these characters are all colorful peripherals to the central character and story of Macheath. Maybe the dominance of Macheath is only due to the fantastic performance of Ballard...