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...What will you do with that?Come December, freshmen will have to commit to one of the 46 concentrations offered at the College. Many of them will choose one of the most popular: government, economics, biology, or social studies. But a fraction of undergraduates will go against the tide, picking one of Harvard’s smallest concentrations, such as statistics, folklore and mythology, or Sanskrit and Indian studies.But these more obscure concentrations can propel their members to distant and diverse futures—even if their specificity might raise eyebrows at a cocktail party.INDIA TO ILLINOISHalf a world away...
...central government often seems to fear that if restrictions on population growth are lifted there will be an immediate population explosion. That would be highly unwelcome economically - with [Communist Party] cadres fearing that the new mouths would either be trapped in poverty at home or join the flood tide of rural migrants swamping the cities...
...Yeltsin was one of those few Russian leaders who became figures of world history. He was very Russian in everything, in his controversies in particular. He was also a true, born leader, capable of going against the tide of public opinion. He did so when he quarreled with Gorbachev in the Soviet Politburo. He did go against the tide, when he presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He did so when he hired Yegor Gaidar and his team to launch his reform...
...World Warms What's the one thing we can do as a nation to help turn the tide on global warming? We can give up the feeling of entitlement that pervades our society. We feel entitled to use a disproportionate amount of the world's resources, live in larger homes and drive larger cars, always thinking that bigger is better. We drive Hummers to haul our supersized butts to the drive-through and then have the audacity to complain about the price of gas. The American Dream has become an environmental nightmare. As the greatest nation on earth, we should...
...What's the one thing we can do as a nation to help turn the tide on global warming? We can give up the feeling of entitlement that pervades our society. We feel entitled to use a disproportionate amount of the world's resources, live in larger homes and drive larger cars, always thinking that bigger is better. We drive Hummers to haul our supersized butts to the drive-through and then have the audacity to complain about the price of gas. The American Dream has become an environmental nightmare. As the greatest nation on earth, we should be leading...