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...over 60 Chinese cities with more than a million people). On a lake in a hyper-modern downtown district built entirely in the last few years, the city hosts a weekly display of pyrotechnics and choreographed water-technics that puts the Bellagio in Las Vegas to shame...
...There is no shame in thrift—and a well-informed consumer will shop around and compare the wares and prices of various vendors. But some students’ indignation at the very thought of paying per semester, at most, a couple hundred dollars over the list price of books seems oddly disproportionate. Many students are indeed on financial aid, and very few have unlimited budgets, but, in terms of the total cost of a Harvard education, the cost of books alone appears quite paltry. Strangely, one never hears nearly as much bitterness over the obscene growth rate...
...Remembering 9/11 I appreciated Jeffrey Kluger's article about commemorating 9/11 [Sept. 17]. We should never forget what happened that day, and we still need to resolve the serious issues of rebuilding and, to our shame, taking care of health and property damage. But in a country that celebrates its birth with discount sales, gives passing recognition to Pearl Harbor Day and virtually ignores the ending dates of the two World Wars, the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks needs to be put into perspective. People who lost loved ones will have grieved and marked the occasion in their...
...number of millionaires in their 30s is frightening, but very often they don't even have good table manners. It's a shame.' ?Valentino...
Fifty years after becoming one of the first black students to attend Little Rock Central High—opening the door for the integration of Southern schools—one civil rights pioneer said she now feels “shame and horror” at the state of today’s public education. “There shouldn’t be such a thing as higher and lower education,” said Minnijean Brown-Trickey, 65, one of the “Little Rock Nine” widely covered in the media in 1957, speaking...