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...same vein, Kruger says that the manager gig proved to be less of a business experience, and more of a “real-world?? experience...
...study of South Asia—home to 1.6 billion people, some of the globe’s earliest advanced civilizations, followers of four of the world??s largest religions, two nuclear powers, and one of the fastest growing economies today—is no longer a special-interest issue. Rather, study of the region has become absolutely essential to any curriculum that seeks to make global citizens of its students. However, despite claims by administrators that Harvard is committed to developing South Asian Studies, we have yet to see the administration devote resources to this area...
...ends meet, and the Americans who do “make it” often find that their material success doesn’t translate into happiness or even contentedness. Most Americans are overweight, which is symbolic of the fact that although we make up five percent of the world??s population, we consume 30 percent of its resources. It’s simply not possible or prudent for the “developing” world to copy the American way of life—the world simply doesn’t have enough gasoline, plastic wrap...
...course, the United States is guilty of pursuing its own economic self-interests at the expense of higher-minded concerns, the Kyoto Protocol being the world??s favorite example. Still, some combination of American and European idealism has remained an important force in international politics, such as intervention in the Balkans and in Somalia. One should wonder how much longer this can or will last...
...very least, un-democratic governments, including Russia. This may indicate the slow demise of the ideals of Western democracies as the point of reference for the great human rights and environmental issues that the planet will be facing. Inevitably, something else will take their place, and the world??s governing values will emerge from other cultural traditions. For better or worse, America and Europe will learn what it’s like to be a bystander...