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...Incredible India" campaign. Come monsoon rains, many homes in this hi-tech city will be flooded with rainwater and sewage sludge. Good roads, metro rail, airports and other facilities have been on the drawing board for years, but there's little evidence of it on the ground. The IT sector and outsourced jobs help a token few, while crime and inflation have only increased. Mathew Varghese, Bangalore, India...
James Poniewozik questioned why there aren't more songs related to the world of white-collar workers, given that 60% of the workforce is employed in the white-collar sector [May 28]. But really, who sounds more interesting: John Henry, the steel-driving man, or John Henry, the quarterly-report-writing...
...Cambodian heritage and public service. Leng, whose family—parents and 40 relatives—moved to Massachusetts a year before she was born, says that her parents’ Cambodian culture remained a significant part of their lives, even in the States. Aside from pursuing public sector work under the fellowship, which will mark her first trip to Cambodia, Leng will meet more extended family. Her extracurricular experiences at Harvard also furthered Leng’s connection to her culture. Leng, a government concentrator, threw herself into her work with Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). Though...
...smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere. Anyone who doesn't move in lockstep with the most extreme voices is savaged and ridiculed-especially people like me who often agree with the liberal position but sometimes disagree and are therefore considered traitorously unreliable. Some of this is understandable: the left-liberals in the blogosphere are merely aping the odious, disdainful-and politically successful-tone that right-wing radio talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh pioneered. They are also justifiably furious...
...Children take time out of math and science to visit a farmer harvesting rice, or learn to prepare buckwheat soba noodles - a favorite Japanese dish -from scratch. But critics like Iwamura and Ehara say the classes have more to do with promoting Japan's inefficient and politically protected farming sector than cooking or eating. The reality is that as long as increasing numbers of Japanese have to be at work or school until late at night, there'll be no one to prepare - or to enjoy - balanced, traditional meals at home...