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...Westerners to tour India was hopscotching from one former maharajah's palace to another, many made over and managed by India's big hotel chains and all of them trading on India's colonial past. They boast scores of costumed staff, playful nods to aristocratic pastimes like life-size chessboards and an irritating parade of people with name tags searching for their corporate event. Now, the more modern way to see India is a mix: a few outstanding palaces and an eclectic selection of small luxury hotels and guesthouses...
...part of faculty and administrators to a dearth of funding.These problems are too large for quick fixes and stopgap measures. Instead of pursuing reforms such as changing the program’s leadership, increasing funding, forcing indifferent professors to pay attention to the program, and reducing class sizes, the University should reevaluate Expository Writing altogether. Specifically, we hope that Expository Writing will be radically downsized and required only for those who fail to demonstrate competency on a placement test.Part of the recent gush in the program’s wounds is due to the lack of attention given...
...student body,” said Stern, president of Harvard Students for Israel (HSI). Tables were set up around the edge of the tent where students could plant a seed to simulate the communal farming of kibbutzim, make a bracelet with Hebrew letters, or compare Israel’s size to Argentina, Eqypt, France, the U.S., and Maine. One stand allowed participants to write messages that would then be delivered to the Western Wall, a Jewish holy site. Other booths offered information about Zionism, trips to Israel, and other opportunities in Israel and on campus. “It?...
...Harvard had fewer lower-income students than most schools. “We are trying very hard to aggressively recruit talented students world-wide, regardless of their financial backgrounds,” she said. For the first time, the College Board’s study included information on the size of university endowments, which have come under congressional scrutiny in recent months. Some politicians have questioned why universities with large endowments continue to increase already expensive tuitions. Baum said her report found that tuition rates had little to do with the size of endowments. “You can?...
...technology’s extravagance alone calls HUDS’ judgment into question—its estimated $40,000 price tag (HUDS declined to provide any specific figures) hardly justifies the slim margin of convenience it may provide. Dish labels already include the most salient food information, from serving size and caloric content to saturated fat, total fat, protein, carbohydrate, and fiber content. Additional details are accessible on the HUDS website, a sleek, polished production designed to “defin[e] the HUDS brand voice literally and visually” and meet the needs of students...