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...usual easy-listening exotica shrink-wrapped for the appetizer course. The melodies traipse from Cairo to Dakar; the lyrics are in Wolof; the liner notes offer translation and explain that the songs are about Sufi scholars, most of whom seem to practice a West African strain of Islamic Calvinism. Lest you fear learning something, N'Dour's voice sweeps and swells with a passion that makes listening to him even in complete ignorance a form of enlightenment...
...seven years after the Core Curriculum burst onto the stage of higher education to cheers and high acclaim, it is about to be booed off. Yet it would be foolish to birth a new general education curriculum in isolation; the Core’s record must be carefully considered, lest the new system repeat its flaws. Change must begin with a fundamental shift in the Core’s administrative structure. Currently, a distinct lack of discerning judgment and capacity for constructive criticism plagues the Core’s current stewards: the Faculty’s Core Standing Committee...
...hope in each is to create an enterprise that looks like a local company, but happens to be owned by a company in India." Tata says the group's success proves his approach is good business, as well as good karma: "We are not in anything for charity." Lest this all sounds too good to be true, the group is not free from controversy. In 2001, Tata Finance sacked its managing director and five other senior managers over alleged financial irregularities. In January, Tata Steel's plans to build a mill in the eastern state of Orissa went tragically awry...
...says she joined mostly to support her friend but also because it was an “interesting concept.” “I’m not really into public exposure,” Bringsjord says. “It was very impulsive.” Lest he be accused of chauvinism, Wallace has also created MrFacebook.com and gone so far as to add his own picture. As of Tuesday night, he was the only contender...
...volunteers in tiny, remote villages. The country has also developed a system to track outbreaks so that doctors and scientists can work to prevent repeats. That's in contrast to most of Africa and to neighboring Burma, Cambodia and Laos, which Wandee says resist public counts of diarrhea cases lest they put off foreign investors and tourists. "If the governments do their job and allow ngos to reach down to the community level," Wandee says, "we could save more people. We could prevent 2 million deaths a year if we could reach out to all the villages." Saving 2 million...