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...first quarter: A lesson: Don't make the Harvard defense mad. Joe Sandberg loses two on the first play from scrimmage...
...proceed with caution.Ultimately, Andelman’s only meaningful insight is that international politics cannot be conducted without extensive knowledge of other nations’ religions, allegiances, needs, hopes, and histories. Of course, he is by no means the first to make this observation. If there is one lesson that the Western world has learned from the last half-century, it is that a failure to understand other cultures can be fatal. Still, Andelman succeeds in establishing that the implications of the 1919 peace treaty are much greater in scope than we tend to think. Germany’s were...
...Nova, started by CEO Nozomu Sahashi in 1981, grew into a publicly listed chain with over 900 locations at its peak, dominating Japan's $1.7 billion foreign-language-education industry through discount lesson offers and a sassy, ubiquitous ad campaign. In 2006, as many as two-thirds of Japan's foreign-language students were enrolled at Nova. But things started to unravel for the company in April, after the Supreme Court ruled that its prepaid tuition scheme, under which students bought thousands of dollars in lessons up front and received only partial refunds in the event of cancellations, was illegal...
...most positive aspects of different races, ethnicities, and cultures. Force-feeding students a distorted view of diversity—or, for that matter, any view—is dangerous. We are relieved that the University of Delaware program has been halted. Other institutions must heed Delaware’s lesson and not fall prey to these sorts of unworthy polemics...
True, the suburbs of Cape Town are a lesson in how segregated different communities can be. But at its best the city offers a relaxed blend of African ethnicity and culture - and nowhere does that harmony look, or sound, better than at the summer concerts in Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden...