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Book Review: Fool Me Twice: Obama’s Shocking Plans for the Next Four Years Exposed

Authors: Aaron J. Klein and Brenda J. Elliott Publisher: WND Books Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Barack Obama has succeeded, for the most part, in fooling America for thinking that he is an “amateur” (the title of a recent book on him). And that he is naïve and stupid and incompetent to govern. Obama may have no experience whatsoever as an administrator or a creator of jobs that produce new income, but Aaron Klein writes that on the contrary, Obama is a highly skilled politician of the most radical and leftist bent “who has spent a lifetime preparing to...

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Book Review: Harvard Business Review: Fixing Health Care From Inside Out

Authors: Various Publisher” Harvard Business Review Press Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Orienting medical care around patients’ needs raises the quality, efficiency and value of such care, asserts Thomas Lee, a doctor who has authored the first article Turning Doctors into Leaders in this book on fixing what ails health care in America. Usually because several specialists are involved in caring for a patient in a hospital, all of  them should be communicating with one another with their primary goal of making that patient better, Lee says. But too often, they’re not talking to each other and the patient...

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Book Review: Harvard Business Review: Rebuilding Your Business Model

Authors: Various Publisher” Harvard Business Review Press Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Even businesses that have had long records of success reach a point where revenues stop with the upward spike, taper off and even start a downward slope, point out Paul Nunes and Tim Breene in Reinvent Your Business Before It’s Too Late, an excellent article in this book containing a series of insights on how to rebuild your business model when it is no longer working as well as it once was. They emphasize the imperative of periodic reinvention for a company to thrive for a long...

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Book Review: Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do

Authors: Stephen F. Davis, Patrick F. Drinan, Tricia Bertram Gallant Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell Book Review by:  Paiso Jamakar We believe and contend that cheating is a problem that ultimately affects the cheater. When students cheat, they are cheating themselves of an education and the opportunity to learn to better themselves. When you simply copy others’ work, you are not learning, and you are cheating yourself of the benefit of learning. In this book, the three authors discovered the who, what, when, where, why and how of students (and their collaborators) involved in cheating. The authors of this eye-opening book on...

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Why do Indian-Americans flock to the Democratic Party?

By: BBC Asia As the US gets ready for elections later this year, Washington-based journalist Seema Sirohi explores why many Indian-Americans support the Democratic Party. A young Indian-American recounted recently that his mother, who is working hard on President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign in the tough swing state of Florida, had told him flatly not to come home if he decided to vote for Mitt Romney, the Republican rival. He laughed but said his mother was not exactly joking when she issued the warning. He is still undecided but is leaning towards Mr Obama for a variety of reasons...

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