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...America and the World Pico Iyer's essay in which he says the U.S. needs to be "in tune" with the rest of the world was quite apt [Nov. 17]. A little over a month ago, while my family and I were having dinner in Coullier, France, and discussing the coming election, a British woman overheard us and said very seriously, "The whole world is watching." I regarded the statement as a little overdramatic until I saw how the international community reacted when Obama was elected. I now look back on that night in France and on the night...
...Iyer arrives at one incorrect conclusion. I have traveled to more than 90 nations. The global disapproval has not been aimed at Americans as individuals but, rightly, at the U.S. government. Roland Bunch, Palo Alto, California...
Harvard Business School Professor Lakshmi Iyer, who has studied the Philippines and worked in other developing countries in Southeast Asia, said she agreed about the University’s brand dominance...
...This lack of faith in government initiatives runs wide and deep, which partially explains the huge response Teach India has evoked from young professionals like Iyer. Run by the Times of India, one of India's leading English-language dailies, in collaboration with UN Volunteers, the program has already received over 100,000 applications from would-be volunteers and is struggling to accommodate them all. "Such a visionary and large-scale program has only been possible because we've been able to get the media, civil society and corporate sector together," says Adeline Aubry, a former UNV program officer under...
...Badarpur, Iyer is helping his class battle integers and geometry. There are moments of hilarity as the English-educated teacher struggles for the right Hindi terms. Next door, Riya Goenka, another Teach India volunteer and a former banker, is leading a class in spoken English to half a dozen teenagers, all of whom want to be retail or beauty-parlor assistants. This is the India in the dawn - whom economic growth has touched just enough to raise aspirations without providing avenues to fulfill those aspirations. "I believe the single most important factor here will be education," says Iyer...