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India’s economy is booming; its leaders proudly proclaim it is the world’s largest democracy. To promote this unqualified positive vision of modern India, however, is to ignore the many negative aspects of development that tell a less optimistic story. Improvement in India has been in pockets, leaving huge numbers of people both invisible and vulnerable. Until recently, the government tolerated civil society, human rights defenders and non-governmental organizations that are often the only voice for India’s otherwise disenfranchised groups. But the government’s attitude towards these groups...
Armed with slides that included several aerial photos of the Allston area, Gordon reviewed the highlights of the University’s current vision for the expansion, emphasizing the sustainability of the project and some of the “unique refinements” that will characterize the Allston campus...
...Following Alec Baldwin’s lead, disgruntled liberals in the last few years have been constantly on the verge of claiming refugee status within the borders of their northern neighbor. Meanwhile, God-fearing conservatives seem happy to share in Pat Buchanan’s nuanced vision of Canada as “Soviet Canuckistan...
...creator of Metafilter, said that “If [there’s] a problem, someone’s gonna want to solve it.” Ben Huh, the owner of “icanhascheezburger.com,” a propagator of the LOLcatz phenomenon, presented a hopeful vision for the future: that the Internet will be a conduit for more reality. “I hope it becomes more like reality,” he said, “that we do not escape into virtual worlds where we are just trying to be somebody else. . .I hope...
...domestic bliss with Sweeney, is one of the show’s most poignant moments.Sondheim develops these two central impulses—toward love and companionship on the one hand, revenge and destruction on the other—into the vast network of scenes and characters that comprise his vision of 19th-century London. The show’s skeletal set, designed by Grace C. Laubacher ’09, changes from a courtroom to a city street with ease. Its many wooden posts also have the irritating habit, however, of obscuring faces at key moments. The show?...