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...price of a barrel of oil, say economists. Nor do the fundamentals of global oil offer much hope for lower prices over the long run. The growth in demand is exceeding the growth of supply by 400,000 bbl. a day, fed by the rapidly expanding Chinese and Indian economies...
...Isn’t it kind of awesome to see an overachieving Indian kid finally do something wrong...
Take this post from the blog Boston Confidential: "Miss Viswanathan’s story is based on her own life, a tale of an ultra-achieving Indian girl whose ambitions seem boundless and whose (apparently) Machiavellian methods are perhaps too eagerly rewarded by over-indulgent parents." Replace "Indian" with another category (besides "East Asian," which has a similar reputation)—try it with, say, "French"—and this claim doesn’t quite make sense...
That Viswanathan is an Indian American seems to have added to the vehemence of the national reaction. Xenophobia is the, well, elephant in the room that mainstream media not noticed just yet. It is a small beast, much smaller than honesty and class to be sure, but it’s there, and any complete explanation of the "Opal Mehta" controversy must take it into account...
...research and potential contributions, say Alesina and Martin. But Summers also has to make decisions about cases in other fields.“To what degree can a president make a decision about people in areas about which he really knows nothing?” asks Sanskrit and Indian Studies ChairLeonard W.J. van der Kuijp. “A humbling moment should take place, so then I believe the president will have closely to read what the ad hoc committee has to say and also look very closely at the files of the person who’s being brought...