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When I was a naïve, wide-eyed freshman in a bare-bones FM comp (oh, how things don’t change), I learned from my editors and from my news-comping, soon-to-be-blockmate. Amit R. Paley ’04 taught me how to make an FTM work and how to stand up to a source. When I did a research assistant stint for Parker R. Conrad ’02-’03, he treated me like someone who deserved to hear his thoughts about where his scrutiny was going. I knew nothing...
...still too frightened to talk about the taboo subjects," Catherine Lim wrote in a lengthy essay published in the Straits Times in May. There is no effective political opposition to the PAP, and few voices prepared to speak out in favor of wider democratic debate. "I think [Lee] taught us fear," says theater director Ong Keng Sen. Lim argues that the stress on order and discipline, arguably essential to an earlier stage of Singapore's development, may harm it now. "A model of governance that has no place for political openness carries with it the seeds of its own decline...
...more inspired by their work when they feel it connects them to ideals that reach far beyond the bottom line. "We need to tap deeper into the purpose of business," he argues. "Teachers go to school with a deeper purpose--to educate young minds. Lawyers ... are not taught in law school that their job as a lawyer is to maximize billing for their firm. Law school preaches the ideas of fairness and justice. Every other profession has a deeper purpose to it. So does business, only it's been taught that it doesn't, that its only purpose...
...from it. This fall Mihaly moved to Mozambique and dedicated himself to fighting poverty. But he carried a new weapon in his battle against social ills: aggressive business skills, taught in a new program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College that deals specifically with nonprofits. "There are a lot of really well-intentioned, good-hearted people working in nonprofits," says Mihaly, "but they're not always the best-run organizations. The nonprofit world could benefit from better management...
...Chan deftly switches between the pulsing musical scenes, the growing tension among the cast in Shanghai and lengthy flashbacks to Sun and Lin's love affair in Beijing. The songs have a sense of the subcontinent, courtesy of top Indian choreographer Farah Khan, who taught the Chinese cast how to use their hips and added a few Bollywood dancers to round out the action. Two of Asia's best cinematographers?Peter Pau and Christopher Doyle?split time behind the camera, and each creates distinct visuals. Pau shoots the baroque hotels and classic Bund streets of Shanghai with a warm...