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...month, finally bringing to the world the legend of the reputed uncle of the Prophet Muhammad. A radiant warrior who saved kingdoms, wooed princesses and journeyed to fantastical realms, Amir Hamza was cherished in the courts of India's Mughal emperors and celebrated in places as far flung as present-day Georgia and Malaysia. But of late, his memory has been in desperate need of rescuing...
...even more fundamental challenge is to convince the government and the public that the BBC should continue to exist largely as is after its present 10-year charter expires in 2016. For almost two decades, the BBC expanded its operations rapidly as it tried to adapt to convulsive changes in technology and viewing habits. It funded these adventures with cash from license payers. It was already beginning to slim down again when, in 2006, the government limited increases in license fees over the next six years, leaving the broadcaster with a $4 billion shortfall. Cutting jobs and selling property will...
This week, after you've taken a deep dive into the micro details of daily life in America, make a macroeconomic leap into the world of global competition. In this issue, we present TIME's inaugural "Best Countries for Business," a special report we are producing with the World Economic Forum (WEF). "Best Countries for Business" offers a formidable combination of resources: the globe's most prestigious business organization linked with the planet's best journalists to report on the heated competition among nations for investment. Alex Perry and Zoe Eisenstein file from Africa on the disparate development of Mauritius...
...School of Arts and Sciences courses to be evaluated, and professors will be able to add their own customized questions to the evaluation form to get more specific feedback. Administrators in charge of the Q did not respond to requests for comment.While these changes are improvements, however small, the present reinvention of the course evaluation system is a missed opportunity to make more meaningful alterations to the culture of feedback and pedagogical improvement at Harvard. Specifically, the reforms fail to address incomplete participation by both students and faculty, which remain the CUE’s Achilles heel. Evaluations mean little...
...Much like the British in colonial Kenya, this country’s present-day administration has presided over a similarly stupefying self-righteousness in Iraq. Despite the intervening half-century, in which the great powers were supposed to have outgrown colonial pretence, the barbarity of the ‘civilizing mission’ makes itself apparent in Iraq today. And no episodes in the four and a half years of occupation better demonstrate this than the brutality of the two sieges of the city of Fallujah...