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...underlying ethical issues involved. Beyond the U.S., Summers will recognize that for the developing world, improved higher education is not just a luxury, but now life or death for these societies. For decades the rich world told the poor world to focus on primary education, even to the neglect of higher education. But this won't do in today's "knowledge economy," where higher education is essential for effective leadership and for technological advance. Harvard should help to lead a worldwide revolution in higher education, to ensure not just our own quality of education, but to help Africa, Asia...
...didn't get an email about that, Mom. You know I would never neglect...
...This week, still bruised from last year's criminal neglect of "The Insider," I was skittish. So I didn't so much confront the nominations this year - I sidled up to them. I had my own list of favorites for Best Picture (which is, of course, the granddaddy of sugar-coated American movie awards) and while I was fairly confident the Academy and I would not see eye to eye (we never have in the past, why should we now?) I couldn't quite abandon hope...
...matter how much you legislate or educate, if you neglect matters that deal with the heart and human spirit, problems will only escalate," she added...
...Once hailed by visitors as the "Bride of the Mediterranean," Tripoli has seen better days. The city is in desperate need of a paint job, if not a face-lift. Still, underneath the neglect spawned by three decades of socialism and eight years of sanctions, there's still plenty of evidence of an unmistakably beautiful city...