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...problem reflects the sad state of Indian society today. Indians see only the immediate trouble and its quick fix. In the quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue - creating problems, analyzing those problems in retrospect, critiquing the possible solutions and finally learning to coexist with the problem. Then some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve the problem of the smaller ones. The entrepreneur's income adds to the gdp, and society learns to coexist with the bigger problem...
...then there was 2004, when the funeral of my grandfather—fittingly enough, Yale class of ’41—kept me from the Crimson’s trouncing of the Bulldogs that capped Harvard’s perfect 10-0 season. It was, in retrospect, a fortuitous miss, since circumstances might have complicated my loyalties.But now it’s November of 2006, and all signs point to yes—this will be the year I see The Game. But I have to admit that as I picked a path between the hordes of student...
...Only in retrospect will we recognize the moment at which the American obesity epidemic reached its tipping point, when whole grains and veggies began to trump transfat and fructose. But this week's announcement by the Walt Disney Co. that it will begin limiting calories, fat and sugar in food marketed to childen under the Disney brand pushes our tubby generation a little closer to that threshold...
...only in retrospect, of course, that I fully understand how deeply this spirit of hers guided me on the path I would ultimately take. It was in search of confirmation of her values that I studied political philosophy, looking for both a language and systems of action that could help build community and make justice real. And it was in search of some practical application of those values that I accepted work after college as a community organizer for a group of churches in Chicago that were trying to cope with joblessness, drugs, and hopelessness in their midst...
...there anything Fox has done in the past 10 years that in retrospect you thought was "unfair and unbalanced...