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...Joginder Singh says his research shows that the typical Indian entrepreneur faces 65 different inspections from various officials before he can open shop. "And these officials are not there to help," says Singh, "but to extort." As a result, many enterprises shut down in their first few weeks or fail to get beyond the drawing board...
...This team is incredibly talented and the one thing that happens to incredibly talented teams is that they fail to prepare for the contests they think they should win,” Delaney-Smith said. “I think they look at themselves and say ‘We should win the Ivy league title this year.’ Well, that’s the worst thing we can do because I’ve had several teams at Harvard that should have won the Ivy league title and because we though we should, we didn?...
...Events in Iraq make it painfully clear that the U.S. cannot bring peace and stability to that nation by itself. Despite the best intentions, the U.S. and its coalition partners are destined to fail unless Iraqis really want freedom. Believing that attacking Americans will lead to a better state of affairs for their nation is a catastrophic misconception. Iraqis will end up with a society ruled once more by gangsters. Iraqis must be willing to fight the terrorists and the thugs who are trying to impose their will upon them. If Iraq really wants to be a self-ruled nation...
Even if services were fully adequate, however, many students in need of care fail to seek help and suffer in silence, often with severely negative consequences. Why is this? Sometimes it is the malign effects of the illness itself. A person who is depressed may feel too hopeless to seek treatment or might feel so worthless as not to merit help. But more often the failure to get help reflects the continuing stigmatization of mental illness—even in a sophisticated community like ours. A person suffering with depression might feel inappropriate shame at not being able to control...
...still write you off,” he says. “[They think,] ‘These kids aren’t going to succeed at Harvard. They’re just not. So why admit them, get their hopes up? They’re just going to fail out.’ Their belief is, ‘Let these students go elsewhere—some state school or community college—and then their kids can go to Harvard...