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...Republican Party has been a vehement bastion of economic freethinking for the past 25 years. This has been an extremely successful political strategy, and it rests on a basic truth: capitalism is the best way to create prosperity. But the strategy frays when taken to its extreme: the more untrammeled the capitalism, the greater the inequities. And with George W. Bush as freedom's ultimate exemplar, the G.O.P. has refused to acknowledge the new playing field-the severe dislocations and vexing security questions-created by a freewheeling global economy. But the Bush view has taken a serious...
...Network's website, foodtv.com features not only thousands of recipes from the likes of Bobby Flay, above, but plenty of quick video lessons too. Rachael Ray demonstrates a one-minute party punch, while Tyler Florence explains how to make a simple salad dressing in seconds. For beginners, there are basic lessons on subjects like chopping vegetables, cleaning shrimp and rolling dough. The site is free, but many of the videos are preceded by brief...
...development. Many of China's 900 million rural inhabitants are farmers, who have little legal or political leverage. They have borne a disproportionate share of the side effects of China's growth, from environmental degradation to misrule by local party officials more eager to line their pockets than provide basic services. Income disparity between the urban rich and the rural poor is at its widest since the People's Republic was founded in 1949. "What China has now is the worst of a planned economy and the worst of capitalism," says Christine Wong, a University of Washington professor who studies...
...says Philip Brown, an economist who studies rural China and teaches at Colby College. "But now they see that the reforms don't go far enough, and they think, This is what we've been waiting for?" The official Chinese media, which has tried to educate farmers on their basic rights, only heightens that disenchantment. "The media can't report on the bad things that happen to you, and so it overreports on the good things," says Mary Gallagher, a political scientist at the University of Michigan. "And that causes unrealistic expectations...
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 agrees that the basic mission of undergraduate education must be geared toward educating students rather than satisfying professors’ teaching desires. “Our students are our basic reason for being in business at all,” he wrote in an op-ed in The Crimson in 2003. “Strangely, the curriculum is determined almost entirely by what faculty feel comfortable teaching rather than by what students want to learn...