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...provided solely as the context every up-on-the-news Indian might have.Puri is a both a beach town, and a temple town. The beach stretches wide and sandy along a rather temperamental section of the Bay of Bengal; discouraging me from entering beyond knee-high. Nonetheless, a quiet gap in which to settle with a book was tough to find amongst the Bengali holiday-makers, at least in this festival time. The temple, meanwhile, honors Lord Jagannath—an iteration of Vishnu whose form, along with his two brothers’, is pulled through the streets...
Obama’s economic team has filed a comprehensive report on ARRP. According to New York Times economist Paul Krugman’s analysis of the report, “the plan would close only around a third of the output gap over the next two years.” Furthermore, it will only lower unemployment from about 9 percent to 7.5 percent, while the economy’s target unemployment rate, the natural rate, is about 5 percent. By the standards of the president-elect’s own economists, the plan will leave America with high unemployment...
...book is being talked of as a kind of subcontinental Bridget Jones's Diary but Mohsin's extraordinary achievement in exploiting the contrapuntal irony in the gap between the private and the public gives it a political depth that aligns it more closely to Rushdie's novel of Pakistan, Shame. This is a wildly entertaining anthology, but beware: it also bites...
...momentum that we were trying to get going.”In the last five minutes of the game, Yale was hit with back-to-back penalties, giving the Crimson a powerplay for nearly three minutes. But what could have been another chance for Harvard to close the scoring gap was wasted, as a misconduct call on both teams interrupted the flow of the game and deflated the Crimson’s offensive drive.Fraser scored again with under a minute on the clock, but Harvard’s attempts to regroup ended up being too little, too late.HE...
...problem will not repeat itself. Although students taking the SAT may apply for fee-waivers, some students will not obtain them and others simply cannot afford to spend endless amounts of time indefinitely preparing for the test. In this age of so much educational advocacy focusing on narrowing the gap associated with wealth and student performance, the College Board would do well to avoid such a potentially damaging backlash...