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...runaway success. Purchases of these vehicles are supported by low-interest consumer loans from Tata Finance. Tata's hotel chain is building 200 hotels across India under the Ginger brand, offering air-conditioned rooms with wireless Internet access for 1,000 rupees ($22), one-twentieth of the cost typically paid by business travelers today...
...Good Year Directed by Ridley Scott Twentieth Century Fox 3 1/2 stars Wine, romance, nostalgia, and competition… No, the new Russell Crowe vehicle is not a retelling of a college career, but rather the story of a businessman who embarks on a journey to discover himself. Sure, it’s hackneyed, but director Ridley Scott’s “A Good Year” still manages to entertain. The film’s plot line is familiar, and holds very few twists. Included within is the traditional “boy meets girl, girl changes...
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Directed by Larry Charles Twentieth-Century...
...most powerful pieces speak to twentieth century African-American cultural heritage. A 1920’s advertisement depicting a subservient black waiter serving a chocolate concoction stands next to several modern deconstructions of other such exploitations of black culture in marketing...
...University Forgot Education”—an expose by former dean of the College and Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68—the report also echoes the pragmatic educational ideals that John Dewey sought at the turn of the twentieth century.Dewey believed that teaching students the relationship between academic texts and their own experience would lead them to be better citizens, and he emphasized the relationship between experiential learning and participation in a community. “By wisdom,” he wrote, “we mean...