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...inclusion of students; we hope this student involvement will be a precedent she continues to support. Students are the heart of any educational institution, and while it is administrators who must run day-to-day operations, often the most qualified advisers on a given issue, regardless of its import, are those whom the decision will affect most closely. Decisions at every level should include more than nominal student input—be it for a small decision like how best to manage the temporary Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) closure, or a larger-scale decision, as in the development of Allston...
...character. “Every time you read you are reinterpreting as a reader,” Saldarriaga said. “Reading is already interpretation.” At Friday’s book-creation workshop, educators and program leaders from Harvard and local public schools aimed to import Barilaro and Saldarriaga’s techniques to use with their own projects. Said Natasha Labaze, an English teacher at Cambridge Ringe and Latin High School, “I’m having a wonderful time and trying to think of ways to apply it to the classroom...
Incredibly, cricket is not India's national sport. That title goes to another English import, field hockey. But as anyone who has ever stepped foot in India can tell you, there is really only one game that matters here and it's not hockey. In the build-up to the quadrennial World Cup - which opened Tuesday in Jamaica - cricket has dominated social conversation, magazine covers and the airwaves. "Cricket is the only game that can stop life in India," says Apurva Anand, a 21-year-old architecture student. "For the next few weeks my studies will just have...
...thriving. The U.S. import has taken root in the Palestinian territories and Israel, evolving into a gritty hybrid expression of the Arab-Israeli conflict that steers clear of the original's current preoccupations with flashy wealth, gangster attitudes and fast women. "It's preposterous to pose as a gangster out here," says Sagol, 59, hailed as the Israeli godfather of hip-hop. Instead, Israeli and Palestinian artists have borrowed from earlier, more socially conscious rappers such as Shakur, and sharpened their songs to a razorlike political edge...
...Opposition to the SEZs is coming even from free-market reformists. Most of India's newest investment zones are much smaller than China's and may not be economically viable in the long term. The tax breaks, which include a five-year holiday on profits tax and exemption from import and excise duty, are also much more generous than those in other countries. Critics of India's approach worry that its SEZs will not attract new investment but merely suck in investment already headed to India while hurting tax revenues. Also, India's Special Economic Zones have so far attracted...