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...background but, like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has not made an issue out of his racial identity. If citizens aren’t making an issue out of it, does that mean that we are finally realizing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream that all people, including political candidates, will “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”? Does a candidate’s race no longer matter to voters...
...Hired from Duke University in 1991, Gates has often called Harvard home to the “greatest center for African and African American studies”—a reference that he made possible with the recruitment of a slew of “Dream Team” professors. Even with the departures of members of that coterie, including West, Lawrence Bobo, and Gwendolyn Du Bois Shaw, Gates helped the department weather the exoduses and continued adding to the faculty ranks. Af-Am’s new chair, Higginbotham, leads a department boosted by the arrival of several...
When Ratan Tata, chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Group, spoke to TIME earlier this year, he urged his countrymen to dream big. India, he said, should "be bold. It must look at the future ... It must look big, and look out." Last week he showed just what he meant: Tata Steel, part of his sprawling $22 billion empire, made an $8 billion bid for the Anglo-Dutch steel manufacturer Corus. The deal, accepted by Corus' board last Friday, creates the world's fifth-largest steel company and is the largest Indian takeover of a foreign company ever...
...combine the group's philanthropic heritage with modern business sense. Targeting the bottom of the income pyramid - a lot of people with a little, rather than a few with a lot - ticks both boxes. Tata points out that consumption, as it is understood in the West, is still a dream for all but a fraction of 3 billion people in the developing world. Only 58 million Indians, out of the country's 1.1 billion population, earn more than $4,400 a year, according to Delhi's National Council of Applied Economic Research. The challenge is to make consumers...
...play and needed five girls to be in it, so instead of sports, which was really the only thing to do at my school, I got to be in a play. From that first role as Hippolyta in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Ritchie continued to perform in plays throughout high school and has acted in a play every semester that she has been at Harvard. This semester, however, Ritchie is tackling a new aspect of the stage—that of directing. I’d done tech directing and costume...