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He got that right. Everyone knows New York is a great international city, but few, I think, understand just how international it has become. Around 40% of New York's population is now foreign born; it was less than 18% in 1960. In 1996, according to the city's planning...
But a world without vigorous economic growth - and this was a theme picked up at the afternoon session on "Bridging Cultures and Civilizations" - is a world in which the best spur to modernity is missing. Relative wealth enables societies to make the wrenching transition from traditional, rural norms to modern...
In addition, the classics department sustains no inquiry into the Egyptian and Ethiopian influences on the ancient world, though these influences were repeatedly recognized by authors such as Herodotus and Thucydides. In the Foreign Cultures section of the Core, over ten courses deal with Europe, while there are none on...
Americans may find it strange to see their "official sandwich" touted by a bellicose cartoon warrior with pigtails and a big moustache, but such adjustments are part and parcel of marketing across cultures. Indeed, if an Indian Mac tastes a little different, that's because it's a "lamb-burger...
“Lots of people know people [who died in the Sept. attacks],” says one longtime resident. Like everyone else they were sad and angry, she says, but “we’re too liberal to have problems—there’s...