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...chance to give their part for the university as a whole. Faust’s letter’s reminder that “Harvard is not invulnerable” serves as a further reminder to all of higher education: Universities are not ivory towers, but forums for the wider world...
...industry is to survive, we can't work in a self-feeding, inward-looking circle of the privileged. We must look wider than that. I love floaty gowns on a catwalk, but we need more than that if fashion is to be relevant.' ?Stefano Pilati, creative director, Yves Saint Laurent...
...will Chinese be so easily diverted? Some analysts of the Chinese media scene, including the respected former editor Li Datong, have expressed optimism that the new policy could be a sign the government is willing to be more open about allowing wider coverage of sensitive incidents like strikes and environmental disasters. But Bandurski says that, if anything, the opposite is true. In the case of the taxi strikes, there have been no follow-up investigations of the corruption that lies at the root of the issue. "You speak to any working reporter and they'll tell you that control...
...scary, skeletal, credit-crunched holiday season that has Brits collectively behaving like Scrooges, unmoved by the government's newly unveiled 20 billion pound fiscal stimulus package and a cut in value-added tax. And unless retailers persuade consumers that redemption - for individuals, for businesses and for the wider economy - lies in more generous spending, Britain's downturn threatens to be steep indeed. According to the British Retail Consortium, retail sales account for a fifth of the nation's economy, with the sector responsible for some 8% of GDP and employing 11% of Britain's total workforce...
...from sideshow farce to center-stage emergency. "When you close down the gateway to the country, then you have reached the point of a national crisis," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a national-security expert at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "In fact, because this now affects Thailand's connection to the wider world, it is becoming an international crisis...