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Building on Diversity I was recently quoted in your story "Soaring Ambitions" [May 3] and felt it necessary to clarify the context of my remark about the current architectural boom in China. Emerging cultures like China often look to foreign firms to provide expertise and vision, and to lend weight...
“Negotiating different cultures between academic and research is never simple,” Narayanamurti said.
“They’re both powerful organizations with quite distinct cultures, and they don’t get always get along perfectly,” he said, “although in history people have tended to get along more often than not.”
Most attempts to uncover the roots of Islamic rage are unflattering to Islam and to Muslims. In his 1981 book Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul suggested that anger and dispossession are endemic to Islam and easily spill over into fanaticism. For others, Islamic terrorism is the most...
The plan to profit off these courses explains another mystery from the review: What professor would ever agree to teach a course whose syllabus resembles a badly designed 6th-grade social studies class (as with the report’s example “cultures and contacts” course...