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Daily Archives: November 13, 2009

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Today’s reading

November 13, 2009 subir
  • Mass corruption defies PM’s call for better governance – FT.com
  • Hiroshima: The dreaded invitation – Washington Post
  • Rural India Gets Chance at Piece of Jobs Boom – NY Times
  • Hedge Funds Can’t Mess Up Worse Than Bob Rubin – Bloomberg.com
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Teaching at American colleges.

November 13, 2009 subir

An article in the WSJ today titled America’s Top College Professor had me thinking about how little teaching goes on in most universities. One sentence in particular rang true for me:

And the joke on many campuses is that the winner of a school’s teaching award is guaranteed to be denied tenure

That’s exactly what happened with one of my professors at NYU.

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Daily link list

November 13, 2009 subir
  • Plastic roads offer greener way to travel in India – NYTimes
  • Rural India gets chance at piece of Job Boom – NYTimes
  • Hiroshima: The Dreaded Invitation – WaPo
  • Hedge Funds can’t mess up worse than Bob Rubin – Bloomberg
  • Mass Corruption Defies PM’s call for Better Governance – FT

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Jagjit Singh sang ghazals
Salman Rushdie writes essays and novels
S.H. Bihari wrote songs for Hindi cinema
Lynx is a fast, text based web-browser
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Walter Pater was a teacher, author and critic
Frederic Bastiat was a journalist/economist
Shiv Batalvi was a Panjabi poet
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Surjit Bindrakhia sang Panjabi Folk songs

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