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...would task the best-run nation in the world. But ask some Indian officials how the objectives are supposed to be achieved by a public sector that has not - let us put this charitably - always been known for its Prussian efficiency, and you will be told, in effect, "No problem." Past performance (as the prospectuses of mutual funds say) is no guarantee of future returns. Just because India's progress was for years strangled by red tape and corruption, there is no reason to think it always will be. Just because India's political system is noisy and disaggregated, with...
What's gutsy is that writer-director Jason Reitman (adapting Walter Kirn's novel) is springing a movie about a toxic social problem at a time when more than a tenth of the workforce is out of a job. Moreover, Reitman hired a few dozen unemployed nonactors to play the parts of staffers who get the hook. These folks aren't performing; they're bleeding on camera. (See pictures "Glitz and Glamour at the Venice Film Festival...
...problem is we take in information from a website differently than we do from a sheet of paper. "The online medium lends itself to a more superficial processing of information," says Jakob Nielsen, a Web-usability expert who has written a dozen books on how people interact with technology. "You're just surfing the information. It's not a deep learning...
Addressing 100 students blocking a parking garage driveway defended by eight visored police with billy clubs, UCLA Sophomore Chiemela Okwandu told the crowd, "This is our university. We can sleep here if we want." Speaking to TIME, Okwandu said the $2,500 tuition increase will be a major problem for many students. "Some of my friends won't be here next quarter. Before it was a question of how smart you were. Now, it's do you have enough money to pay for school." Veronica Hernandez, who grew up in East LA and attends UC Riverside, said, "It took...
...never happened, who's to say France wouldn't have scored a few minutes later? Or won the game, and the World Cup spot, on penalty kicks? Because of the blown call, we'll never know what really should have happened. A brand new match doesn't solve that problem. So let's all move on. Fer crissakes...