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Educating American lawyers about India's English-speaking attorneys, who are trained in a common-law system modeled on Britain's, helped change attitudes, at least among top lawyers for U.S. companies, Heffernan says. About 75% of Mindcrest's clients are FORTUNE 500 companies. Mindcrest hired 390 lawyers last year alone, a staff increase mandated by clients with some large-scale projects, it says...
...department that emphasizes concise writing, the name “Department of English and American Language and Literature” might be considered a bit clunky. As a result, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote on whether to trim the name to the more manageable “Department of English” at its next meeting on April 8. The proposal for the name change was passed yesterday by the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of the Faculty. The department itself already uses the shorter name, with several endowed professorships carrying the name...
...dark side of corporate efficiency and cost savings is the consumers' stress, frustration, anger and wasted time spent attempting to resolve a problem. The interminable wait for a phone representative, the incomprehensible English from India or the Philippines and an unsatisfactory conclusion are all beyond endurance. Bernard Sussman, LONGBOAT...
...seems to be an undeniable fact of the research that the benchmark of one’s standing...largely depends on the volume and quantity of your scholarly work,” Kronman said. Kronman’s opinions were strongly opposed by all of the questioners. English Professor James Engell said that students today may no longer be seeking the same end result to their educations. “Thirty years ago 80 percent of students wanted to get a philosophy of life, compared to only 20 percent today,” Engell said. “Today...
Harvard also received first place rankings in the exclusively peer-reviewed Political Science and English categories...