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...though not universally, less remarkable, but whose company I seek out nearly every Saturday night. They roam in those eight imposing mansions that enshrine the mystique of the elite—admittedly debunked after meeting most of the members, but still somehow compelling every time I walk by. This world??s inhabitants and I share little to nothing in common—not gender, race, socioeconomic background, or unabashed self-entitlement, and certainly not a penchant for Nantucket Reds.But despite my dissimilar profile—and my lofty, if disingenuous, rejection of their elitism—I must...
...compatible ideologies. The charismatic Anwar Ibrahim criticized the “democracy deficit” of many Muslim nations, but also questioned the wisdom of spreading democracy “at the barrel of an M-16.” Noting that the moderate democracy of Indonesia has the world??s largest Muslim population, Ibrahim warned against identifying Islam solely with autocratic regimes like that of Saudi Arabia. Ibrahim, who is now a visiting professor at Georgetown University, was forced out of the Malaysian government in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Authorities beat...
Google resumed its controversial book-scanning initiative on Tuesday, despite the objections of several publishers and two pending copyright-infringement lawsuits. The initiative, “Google Print,” is a multi-year project to digitalize the contents of five of the world??s largest research libraries, including Harvard’s. Stanford, the University of Michigan, Oxford, and the New York Public Library have also partnered with Google on the effort. In August, Google temporarily halted the scanning of works that are under copyright protection but said that scanning would resume...
...difference, he said, would be the absence of trees that have been knocked down. Strecker said the destruction that bordered Tulane’s campus offers students the opportunity to perform valuable community service. “They get to take part in the rebuilding of one of the world??s greatest cities, and that’s an experience that no other student in the world has,” he said. Slattery said New Orleans had a incentive to rebuild Tulane, since it is the city’s largest employer and a major engine...
...historically there has been a pattern of gender imbalance in China—and over the past 20 years that gap has widened dramatically. There are now 1.07 boys born for each girl in China, compared to a ratio of 1.05 in the West. Given the size of the world??s population, a 0.02 difference can translate into millions of people. According to authors like Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, as many as 100 million women have gone “missing” in Asia. Most authors have attributed the missing women to high levels of female...