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Graduates from India's prestigious technology universities get good jobs, make great money and are eagerly sought-after marriage partners. But according to Chetan Bhagat's charming debut novel Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT, they end up in a Faustian bargain: students at the seven India Institutes of Technology sacrifice their youth for the sake of a successful adulthood...
...Faustian deal. As a neophyte, I find it all quite fascinating. But you have to understand, it's not really my planet...
...error occurred while processing this directive]In the time it takes me to get home?which could be anywhere between 20 minutes and an hour, depending on traffic?hundreds of unsuspecting tourists will enter similarly Faustian bargains with tuk-tuk drivers in all corners of the capital. A white-knuckle, smog-shrouded ride in one of these golf-carts-on-steroids should be on the top of any Bangkok tourist's checklist, up there with a visit to the Grand Palace, a kickboxing match at Lumpini Stadium, shopping at Chatuchak weekend market and a longtail-boat ride to the Temple...
...pawns in a geopolitical chess game is a damnable proposition. The U.S. enjoys unprecedented dominance in the economic and military spheres. We have witnessed a continual increase in the number of the world's democratic states. It is unconscionable to fritter away our moral capital by entering into Faustian bargains with thugs. Those pacts have yielded appalling results for Americans and the rest of the people of the world. VIJAY DANDAPANI New York City...
...extends to form a three-note quotation from Beethoven’s Les Adieux piano sonata. These motivic constructions permeate every movement of the piece. Leonard Bernstein, in his 1973 Norton lectures here at Harvard, defined the symphony as a farewell to life, tonality and “our Faustian society.” There was no doubt, however, that the BSO’s concert was a lovingly performed farewell to Ozawa...