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...school, I loathed Latin, in general, but I detested Virgil in particular. After you'd spent hours wading through conjugations and declensions and ablative absolutes and gerunds and pasts perfect, imperfect and pluperfect, there was the pointless torture of learning and then reciting lines of dactylic hexameter about this bloke wandering aimlessly around the Mediterranean at the whim of a perpetually pissed-off goddess. I mean, even Milton was more fun than that...
...attracts barely 10% of the foreign direct investment figure for China (although the two count investment in different ways), and wants to close the gap as rapidly as possible. Early last year, the Congress-led government passed a new SEZ law designed to speed up India's economy, in particular its manufacturing sector, by offering further incentives to prospective investors. Since then, hundreds of companies have applied to set up SEZs, with the government so far approving more than...
...saying and getting wrong. To me, Mrs Thatcher, it's all a long time in the past. People are voting at the next election who were born after Mrs. Thatcher left office. It's an important thought. So I'm not trying to be the heir to anybody in particular. I'm just trying to do the job. But there are some important things to learn from Margaret Thatcher's success...
...emphasizes exposure to different academic approaches to knowledge. But the students expressed concern that the proposed categories could become little more than a renamed core. Without concrete guidelines, “many professors will continue to teach a disproportionate number of overly specialized, specific classes that speak to their particular research interests rather than the more broadly stated goals of General Education,” the letter reads. Students also approved the removal of the controversial “Reason and Faith” requirement, which was dropped from the Gen Ed proposal this December after faculty opposition. Again echoing...
...monks as well as the patients with depression or OCD, the conscious act of thinking about their thoughts in a particular way rearranged the brain. The discovery of neuroplasticity, in particular the power of the mind to change the brain, is still too new for scientists, let alone the rest of us, to grasp its full meaning. But even as it offers new therapies for illnesses of the mind, it promises something more fundamental: a new understanding of what it means to be human...