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...PERFORMANCE OF THE WEEK Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he'd answer questions "from my heart" during his March 14 news conference. His heart was well prepared. Most questions allowed at the event came from journalists whose queries were screened in advance by the Foreign Ministry?hence Wen's Sanskrit poetry recital after a question by an Indian reporter. In response to a TIME query, the ministry denied screening questions and said reporters "are free to raise any question." So long...
Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 is a Sanskrit and Indian studies concentrator in Eliot House. Benjamin B. Collins ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. Both are Project Officers of the Harvard Darfur Action Group...
...team, for example, fields as many computer science majors as their economics counterparts. Likewise, the women’s lightweight crew boasts 11 biology or biochemical sciences concentrators—half its upper-class roster—and a slew of rowers studying in less frequently chosen fields, from Sanskrit and Indian Studies to Environmental Science and Public Policy. The glaring omission from the slate? Psychology...
...been five years since the spirituality-seeking Madonna, dressed in a sari and adorned with a tilaka marking on her forehead, sang a self-composed Sanskrit song at the MTV awards before a backdrop of Hindu god images?simultaneously raising the West's awareness of Hinduism and incurring the ire of the religion's faith police. Things Indian have only gotten trendier since. But as Madonna discovered, cashing in on Hinduism can be a mixed blessing...
...performance and grades was severely discouraged,” he wrote in an autobiographical statement upon receiving the Nobel Prize. The teachers instead emphasized the importance of genuine curiosity as the impetus behind education and, ultimately, creative thought. Under this eccentric tutelage, Sen considered careers in physics, mathematics and Sanskrit before deciding to pursue economics...