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...tomb of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the populist Pakistani President who was overthrown in a military coup and executed in 1979, looms over the poverty-stricken salt marshes of rural Sind province. From a distance, the hulking mausoleum resembles a plasticine model of the Taj Mahal squeezed onto too small a foundation. Before Bhutto--who founded the Pakistan People's Party--was hanged, he had requested nothing more than a humble marble slab to mark his grave. But in Pakistani politics, image is everything. It's a lesson Benazir Bhutto learned at her father's knee. Hence her decision a dozen...
...recent years to work in information technology . Thus, we see a wide range across the spectrum of socioeconomic attainment and acculturation, the scope of which often becomes troublingly lost in categorizations of Asian America. In particular, success myths of what Asian America represents—a high-achieving, model minority with overabundant work ethic—are largely inaccurate when applied across the board...
...most visible suggestions of “model minority” status arises in the domain of educational attainment. It is true that some Asian Americans have attained high levels of scholarly achievement—for instance, 64 percent of Asian Indians hold at least a bachelor’s degree, and over 50 percent of Chinese and Pakistani do. The counter story, however, is one we must also keep in mind; among Cambodians, Hmong and Laotians, only 8 or 9 percent graduate college—in fact, only about half graduate high school .Thus the label of Asian-American...
Students: Steven M. Marks, general counsel to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is disappointed in you. His clients have made available, in Marks’ words, “exciting new digital models that offer fans, including college students, their favorite music how they want it and where they want it.” Yet still, wayward students, you flout him, resorting to illegal free downloads without stopping for a moment to consider buying the $20 CD. Marks goes on to paint a harrowing portrait of a world free of music, consumed by collegiate greed...
...growth from the endowment, the total cost of eliminating tuition would only be 1.8 percent of the 5.7 billion increase in the endowment in the most recent fiscal year. But even if Harvard were able to eliminate tuition, the issue remains complex. Some experts wonder if a tuition-free model would even be a good thing at a place like Harvard, and the effects of the system at tuition-free Olin aren’t what you might expect.Freer Than FreeWhen Marco A. Morales began his college search, he knew very little about what to expect from the process. Morales...