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...Countless other Indian medical workers who have gone on strike this week feel much the same as Sen, which is why India's sudden battle over affirmative action makes the ongoing divide in the U.S. over racial preferences seem tame by comparison. Public hospitals across the country have shut their doors to all but emergency services; private hospitals in some Delhi suburbs are following suit; trade unions have called for a morning of civil disobedience; and students at India's elite business schools are meeting to plan their own protests. In spite of the disruption, the government has sworn that...
...grandfather. You know, when you're in your 30s, you don't think about the end of your life. And I didn't think about it so much when I got to 40. But when I turned 50, it was like a switch went off. All of a sudden you think, boy, how fast the last 20 years went. You realize how important life is, how short life is and what's going to happen after life. Is that it? Or is there something beyond life that God has for us? The Bible teaches that there is--that there...
Public fisticuffs come fast and furious on the web, and there is no better example than the sudden outburst of chatter about John McCain's speech at the commencement ceremonies of The New School. During his address to students of the liberal New York City institution last week, McCain was booed and jeered by some of the students. He was given a gentler rebuke from the podium by one of the student speakers, Jean Rohe, who said McCain's support for the Iraq war "does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded." McCain himself seemed unfazed...
...surging price of gold and oil telling us that we are headed back to those days? Will inflation once again ravage the markets? One must always remain vigilant. Markets, indeed entire economies, can turn in what appears to be an instant. Stuff happens. But in my view the sudden frenzy about inflation is misplaced. Powerful forces in the world economy continue to keep prices largely in check. Indeed, if anything, central banks in their determination to kill inflation before it happens may already have tightened too much. Over the last decade, the world has experienced a series of brutal deflationary...
...Geoffrey Bardon began marketing the prized work of his Papunya artists in 1971. Incorporated the following year, Papunya Tula Artists were turning over $A1 million a year by 1988, and their success did not go unnoticed. When the exhibition "Dreamings" toured to New York in 1988, "all of a sudden taxi drivers and carpetbaggers from the desert were rocking up with works by the same artists rolled up under their arms and flogging them to na?ve collectors," Tim Klingender of Sotheby's auction house recalls...