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...today are too slow to consider the tools and mechanics that proverbial broth-making implies. The collaborative novel, if nothing else, gives us an opportunity to reflect on our technological situation. After all, isn’t laughter “the panacea for the pain of the human experience…like apathy is the icing on the tractor?...
...democracy. To promote this unqualified positive vision of modern India, however, is to ignore the many negative aspects of development that tell a less optimistic story. Improvement in India has been in pockets, leaving huge numbers of people both invisible and vulnerable. Until recently, the government tolerated civil society, human rights defenders and non-governmental organizations that are often the only voice for India’s otherwise disenfranchised groups. But the government’s attitude towards these groups is rapidly changing. Largely unnoticed amid stories of silicon valleys, double-digit growth rates, and foreign direct investment...
According to Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Allan M. Brandt, six or seven of these course=planning seminars will be in place in the fall, including one on international human rights taught by African studies professor Caroline M. Elkins...
...composition is changing. We’re now at one-third non-white.” Some councillors were concerned to learn that 40 percent of the children under 18 in Cambridge speak a language other than English at home. But Ellen Semenoff, the assistant city manager for human resources, said that while Cambridge is becoming more diverse, with growing black and Asian populations, the city has few “linguistically-isolated” households. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach can be reached...
...body, and the fact that the mind is a really, very powerful organ,” he said. Gregory L. Fricchione, a professor of psychiatry at the Medical School, said he agrees with the findings presented in the article. “The resiliency that we have as human beings, as human organisms, is made up of these components,” he said. “We need nutrition, we need exercise, but we also need healthy minds.” But despite the findings, Simon said that whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic may be genetic...