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...encompasses the wonders of the Taj Mahal, a growing software industry and the country's first shopping malls for the average consumer. Jayanti Jha Chandigarh, India You did not mention one of the greatest reasons for India's economic success: of the country's hundreds of languages, the one spoken in common by the upcoming generation is English. China is just now catching on to the necessity of learning English. Just wait until China starts teaching English full bore! Are you listening, Mexico? Francis Cartier Pacific Grove, California, U.S. Your story "Bombay's boom" provided an authentic encounter with...
...learning Mandarin. Even after several years spent mastering the language, you will be able to communicate well with only people from Beijing. Linguistically, China is complicated and diverse, like Europe. Each province has a major dialect and many subdialects. Imagine Dutch, Danish, English, Welsh, Spanish and Catalan, all being spoken in the same country! For communicating outside northern China, Mandarin is functional only if the natives feel they would benefit from speaking with you. Kwok Kian Cheng Singapore...
Vova (short for Vladimir) is shaggy haired and soft spoken. Olga has big eyes and a big smile and is a little hyperactive--she sometimes breaks into a soft-shoe dance routine to keep herself entertained. They're an unlikely duo to be at the center of a controversy that has divided the passionate, arcane and exclusive community of high-level professional juggling, the kind most people rarely see outside of Cirque du Soleil...
...didn't expect the public attack. We haven't spoken about it. I don't think I'm being disrespectful--I'm being playful. Some people are used to seeing my father academically--my sister comes from a more academic world. But not everything should be told in an academic...
...summer school—has been working to develop C-CAP, a course-cost assistance program for low-income students. Sponsored by the Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) campaign, the program would grant textbook stipends to students with family incomes under $60,000. Anene, who said he has spoken to Harvard administrators who oversee financial aid about the program, would like to see a stipend program in place by the fall...