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Namely, that the playing fields at fair Harvard tend to be the territory of white elites...
...city's largest community are Mohajirs, descendants of those who fled from south of the border when the 1947 partition separated Pakistan from India. They make up almost half of the population, and tend to support the pro-government Mutaihda Qaumi Movement (MQM). Punjabis and Pathans each make up around a quarter of the population...
It’s distinctly unoriginal to point out that Harvard students are born and bred overachievers, hypercompetitive by nature. Harvard undergraduates tend to be the sort of people who are practiced at delivering the exhortation that “winning isn’t everything” without a shadow of irony, yet completely disingenuously. Put them at the helm of make-believe armies in a campus-wide game of Risk and you’ll find yourself face-to-face with their darker side; a ruthless ambition to win so intense that anyone who dares...
...blame for February, too.) In some ways, dumping Neeleman isn't a surprising move. He's a great entrepreneur, but perhaps one of those types who is much better at innovating than operating. The skill sets are vastly different, and many entrepreneurs get bored by running a company and tend to step aside and move onto the next business once the newbie gets on its feet. "This is a natural evolution of our leadership structure as JetBlue continues to grow," Neeleman, 47, said in a statement...
Then there's oil. As Thomas Friedman has noted, the price of crude and the tide of freedom tend to move in opposite directions. Before 9/11, the price per bbl. fluctuated between $20 and $30. Now it hovers between $50 and $65. And that's not likely to change anytime soon, given rising demand from China and India. That gives oil-producing autocracies such as Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan and now Nigeria more money to crush or buy off internal dissent. And it makes it easier for them to win friends and influence people around the world. A decade...