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...best for one person won’t be best for another,” Lewis said in a written statement. “So I approve of transparency, but tend not to assign to much significance to one-dimensional rankings,” U.K. schools saw a widespread drop in rankings this year, with top universities Cambridge and Oxford falling behind Yale to third and fourth place. Higher education observers in England worry that their universities will continue to fall behind American peers due to their comparative poverty. Oxford’s endownment stands at a fifth the size...
...global system is going to be like for them. Our challenge is to make the system work for all these people.” Summers closed his speech noting that capitalism had successfully faced down similar challenges in the past. “In the 20th century, we saw a Republican Roosevelt and a Democratic Roosevelt preside over periods when capitalism was saved from itself,” Summers said. “This is our challenge today.” CAPITALISM IN DANGER?A panel moderated by Business School professor Michael E. Porter further explored the difficulties currently facing...
...orchestra represents the world that he lives in,” Koh said. “If you listen to the orchestra, there is a lot going on, and it’s just really frantic and chaotic, and I think that’s how he saw the world at the time...
...strong and vocal segment that uses scare tactics to try and keep other Republicans from being more supportive,” Sammon said. “But they probably only represent one in four Republicans.” Both Sammon and Stonewall Democrat President Jon Hoadley said that they saw eye-to-eye on LGBT issues but held differing viewpoints when it came to the current presidential election. Sammon suggested that while the Democratic Party has a history of pro-LGBT promises, the inaction of Democratic candidate Barack Obama on issues such as gay marriage should make his party less...
...suddenly remembered that all those bodies I maneuvered past had feet, and all the female feet wore nail polish. No woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar...