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...Pranab Mukherjee increased the budget for higher education by 55% to $3.1 billion, saying that "the demographic advantage that India has needs to be converted into a dynamic economic advantage by providing the right education and skills." Taking cues from India's politicians, nearly all of the major foreign English-language universities now have an eye on India. Next January, Allan Goodman, president and CEO of the New York-based Institute of International Education (IIE), with which some 800 U.S. colleges are affiliated, plans to take a 20-college delegation to India to explore opportunities to set up programs there...
...written several books on economics and politics. Enjoys running and cycling (he's biked some portions of the Tour de France, although not in competition). Fluent in English and French...
...real writing starts after casting, when Apatow re-creates his characters based on the actors. He's not interested in having anyone do a Meryl Streep-like transformation. "Initially my character in Sarah Marshall was an English author, a bookworm character," says Russell Brand, the English comedian who played a rock star in the movie. "Eventually it was decided that no one could expect me to do any actual acting. I think he's very interested in truth, so he has a good intuition about people's essence." Sean (Diddy) Combs co-stars in next year's Apatow-produced...
...Isolation The flurry of projects and interest has boosted Timbuktu's tourism trade. The driver who meets me at the tiny airport introduces himself (in perfect English) as "Jack - like Jack Bauer [from television's 24]." Crowds of Europeans converge every January to attend the musical Festival of the Desert in nearby Essakane. And young locals - armed with French and English - ply their trade as guides for adventure tour groups. (See pictures of the Festival au Desert in Mali...
...window on the world buried by the ashes of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Pompeii's frescoes have just been unveiled after a decade of restoration, and can be seen alongside artifacts from sculptures to erotic mosaics. Afterward, walk south to Piazza Bellini, where Earl Grey tea and English cakes on the terrace of the literary café Intra Moenia, www.intramoenia.it, are the perfect way to ease back into the modern world...