...Noah Arjomand In this essay, the libraries of Kabul serve as a microcosm of the international “capacity-building” project in Afghanistan. Visions of modern and digital library systems have run into the realities of donors interested in quick “success stories” more than programs that work long-term...

...S. Lochlann Jain This essay analyzes the subject positioning demanded by randomized control trials (RCT). Taking seriously the fact that people in late-stage cancer treatments will die, even if one arm of the study receives a “successful” treatment, Jain argues that the RCT framework carries...

..., rivalries, successes, and failures—reminds us of something overlooked in recent decades: that sovereignty in the past and in many areas today is complex, divided, layered, and configured on multiple founding principles and practices. This article points to the varied repertoires of power used by empires...

... to be successful, however, the UCMC has also had to learn how to manage its research and service activities in ways that can be tracked by governmental auditors and that can be made apparent and accountable to an already suspicious public. 2013 In 2005 Dr. James L. Madara, the University of Chicago Medical...

... and explores possible reasons that explain its current success, as these categories are used for thinking about, managing, and inhabiting situations of extreme precariousness, but which are nonetheless very different from the original cases of forced disappearance. The second movement involves developing...

...Elizabeth G. Traube Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Cultural Studies 1991 References Baritz , Loren . ( 1982 ) The Good Life: The Meaning of Success for the American Middle Class . New York: Harper & Row. Bensman , Joseph , and Arthur Vidich. ( 1971...

... of Democracy.” Each win is termed a sukses (success). The peculiar certainty of these successes is evident in the government’s campaign command for all participants to mensukseskan - to “success,” as it were - the elections. This means, in essence, to secure a victory already scored. Given...

... to the cause of an alternate cinema. To be sure, there were Ray and Ghatak in Bengal, but by this time Ray’s international success had al- lowed him to move beyond the pale of government support, and Ghatak continued to languish without encouragement. Through the 196Os, the FFC loan scheme followed...

... Harvard University Press book, Playing in the Dark, also appeared on the nonfiction bestseller list, where it spent six weeks, followed by Marian Edelman’s Measure of Our Success and Cornel West’s Race Matters. Thanks in part to Spike Lee, the Times paperback bestseller list included Malcolm Xs...

...: 297, emphasis mine). An industrial or commercial leap or breakthrough (whether the invention of James Watt’s steam engine or the Bessemer steel-making process or Wal-Mart’s inven- tory system) results in huge profits for the successful entrepreneur. Such innova- tive leaps are the motor...

... the opposition and hostility of the French colonial administration to the marabout Amadou Bamba, the formation of the Murid brotherhood relied heavily on peanut growing, at which it was phenomenally successful in the first half of the twentieth...

... successful. It is doubtful that companies will eliminate marketing budgets because research cannot prove that ads cause customers to part with their money. Tens of billions of dollars flow each year from corporate coffers to advertising agencies. There does not appear to be much slowdown in the current...

... psychologist from Vienna” with “some interesting new ideas which can help you be more successful, effec- tive, sell more and communicate better with your potential clients.” In 1939, he landed an assignment with the magazine Esquire—the Playboy or Penthouse of its day—researching why men read the magazine...

... a ringtone of her screaming “Are you kidding me?!?!,” a GIF of her shouting “Prostitution whore!” at New Jersey housewife Danielle Staub, and many others of her rolling her eyes, flubbing words or phrases, screaming, crying, and primping (see fig. 2 ). Leakes, one of the most successful and well-paid...

... that asymmetrical interdependence. The performance’s structure highlighted the celebrity’s dependence on her public, since the show existed only because it attracted interest; had few people chosen to sit opposite the artist, there would have been no performance. At the same time, the more successful the show...

... is not a separation be- tween intellectual fashion and genuine scholarship as it seems to exist in the West but a successive change of intellectual booms. In Japan, where cap- italism's dependence on the coming and going of different booms is partic- ularly apparent, it is impossible for intellectuals...

..., and there was a lot of experimentation with Western art. But it was too short a time for people to really absorb Western art forms, and they couldn’t yet find a way to take Chinese traditional art and bring it together with Western art. So, I made an experiment. And some people felt that it was a successful...

... valuessuch as promoting the family, motivating education, developing a liking for hard work and a sense of thriftwhich some, such as Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and Harvard‘s Tu Wei-ming have argued underpin Singapore’s success, are universal rather than narrowly...

... of crossover; by and large African American artists must first demonstrate success in the black market before gaining access to the mainstream. It is a process which holds black artists to a higher standard of performance than white and it is only recently that it has been successfully circumvented...

... problems, modernization failures, and adjustment needs of non- Western societies. At base, the book argues that only some cultures of the world succeed economically, that the characteristics of those successful cultures are describable (even quantifiable), and that other societies must attempt to emulate...