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Higher education in India is a constant struggle against the system. However, I would argue that India produces some of the world’s most brilliant graduates. Students in the Indian education system succeed not because of their education but in spite of it. They teach themselves by reading in textbooks what their professors failed to teach. They overcome administrative hurdles unimaginable by American students to get what they want...
...Schauf] will be an amazing president,” outgoing president Joanna N. Huey ’06 wrote in an e-mail message. “His work has proven him to be brilliant and diligent, and he has earned the respect of our editors...
...that hopey-changey stuff workin' out for ya?" Sarah Palin asked the anti-élitist Tea Party élites - those who could pay $549 for a ticket - gathered in suffocating self-righteousness at the Opryland Hotel on the first weekend of February. It was classic Palin, a brilliant line, brilliantly delivered: she does folksy far better than George W. Bush or any of the other Republican focus-group populists ever did. It was the signature line of her speech, which rocked the joint - and then, slowly, began to rock the national political community. The speech was inspired drivel, a series...
Your cover line, "The Threat in Yemen ... a tough challenge for the West" fills me with foreboding. What will be our brilliant strategy this time? To wade in again, missile-handed, and further destabilize an already fragile country, alienating yet more of its citizens? Terrorism is a worldwide problem and needs a worldwide response. We all hate terrorism, but when it comes to foreign policy, the solutions should be spearheaded by a strongly financed and resourced U.N. Maybe it's time to get behind and support the organization we have marginalized for so long. Give it the power...
Temple Grandin is America's best-known autistic person, and she's about to become much more famous. On February 6, HBO debuts a feature film that stars Claire Danes as the gawky, socially impaired but brilliant animal scientist who, despite her disability - or in many ways, because of it - has achieved enormous success in two arenas: as designer of humane cattle-handling facilities and an author and outspoken voice on autism. The movie, Temple Grandin, tracks Grandin's early years as a child who had no speech and very little connection to the world at age four, through...