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...responsibility to those interested in popular fields ranging from English to biology. And to say that students must share the burden of reaching out to professors is at once correct and irrelevant. Harvard’s best and brightest undergraduates are not connecting with the University’s world-class faculty even though they excelled at precisely that in high school. Something is fundamentally wrong at the institutional level.Harvard has begun to address the problem. There are some bright spots: a few wonderful professors who transcend the divide and some nurturing concentrations that enjoy the luxury of small size...
...threaten the very foundation of Harvard’s educational philosophy: the liberal arts.At first glance, the creation of the new school seems a positive development for Harvard’s long-suffering undergraduate engineers. If students want to come to Harvard to study engineering, they should have a world-class program at their disposal, shouldn’t he? The fact that Harvard annually loses scores of admitted would-be engineering undergrads to schools with better-developed and better-hyped engineering programs—like Stanford, Princeton, and MIT—is a bad thing, right? Not necessarily.American college...
Nike also scooped up such world-class stars as Brazilians Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, British sensation Wayne Rooney and American Landon Donovan to wear the company's boots. It paid marquee European clubs--Manchester United and Arsenal in England, Juventus in Italy and FC Barcelona in Spain--to wear the Swoosh on their kits...
Other Whole Foods innovations are also forging new ground. The Austin store offers guided tours via iPod and is about to open a catering division and a world-class cooking school. And a 75,000-sq.-ft. store in the center of London will be that city's largest supermarket ever...
...Lakshmi the power of wealth and Saraswati the power of knowledge. In the present context, you could say Saraswati occupies the commanding seat. Asia is emerging as a new power center, so it is natural for the continent's youth to focus on academic excellence. In order to produce world-class business leaders, the Asian parents and their children are becoming the devotees of goddess Saraswati. Jagdish M. Ovasdi Jaipur, India...