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...nature of Chinese college students), but these are worth thumbing through for the sharp comparisons Aiyar makes between China and her own country. Interviews with Beijing's toilet cleaners prompt her to ponder their Indian counterparts. The former harbor entrepreneurial dreams and say they prefer toilets to farmwork; the latter endure a lifelong stigma as "untouchables." In China, Aiyar observes, the word servant "described a job that someone did rather than defining the essence of who they were...
...Obama moved on to his stump speech, disparaging Bush and John McCain and mocking the latter's suggestion that Obama has socialist tendencies, Clinton sat nearby, gazing, nodding and showing off his trademark exaggerated belly laugh on a few occasions...
...more nuanced. As veterans of the postering process, we are aware of just how difficult it is to determine whether a poster has been intentionally vandalized or simply buried under the detritus of the daily poster wars. The former is a serious violation of College regulations; the latter is simply a consequence of sleep-deprived students rushing about in an attempt to finish quickly so that they can take a nap before their first classes of the day. HRL President Mary Anne Marks ’10 has admitted that she is unsure whether the damage to HRL?...
Unemployment is going to be a problem even though many economists view the current economic crisis on the whole as a rough patch with a foreseeable end. Some optimistic forecasts show GDP growth slipping until sometime in the latter part of 2009, when it is expected to inch upward again. But even an uptick in broad economic indicators after next year is unlikely to ease unemployment. The high unemployment rates taking shape now are likely to hover near record levels for some time, because economic recoveries in recent decades have tended to go forward without generating many jobs...
...Williams’ penchant for composing meaningful and often melancholic music is in no way diminished. She sings tenderly on slower, more mellow songs like “Knowing” and “Plan to Marry,” demonstrating her talent to the fullest extent. The latter, a charming and stripped-down acoustic song, would be more appropriate in a coffeehouse in mid-winter than on this otherwise orchestrated country album. In the heartbreaking “If Wishes Were Horses,” she begs for forgiveness, crying her heart out in a wailing voice that...