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Thomas Abraham, President and CEO of Hachette Book Publishing India: "What we all are very happy about is that we've reached a stage where abroad you are not counted as an 'Indian' ... an Indian author is not an oddity that has to be given a quota of awards...
...year, weakening Ireland's construction industry, which plays an outsized role in the country's economy. Throw in frozen credit markets, high inflation, soaring unemployment and a new tax to pay for the financial crisis bailout, and it's little wonder Ireland's workers are again pondering a move abroad. Dublin's Economic and Social Research Institute, a think tank, forecasts a net migratory outflow of 30,000 in 2009, the highest rate for 20 years. The stalled economy, McLarnon says, has "created a sense of urgency...
Ahtisaari, a former primary-school teacher, joined the Finnish Foreign Ministry as a diplomat in the mid-'60s. His first peace mediation job was as U.N. envoy to Namibia, where guerrillas were fighting the apartheid government of South Africa. He spent 20 years abroad as a diplomat for Finland and the U.N. before contesting and winning the presidential election in 1994, serving one term before returning to mediation work full time...
...militant. But in the general election, McCain has hewed closer to Penn's advice. One gop commercial touted the Arizona Senator as "the American President Americans have been waiting for," as if there were another kind. Over the summer, McCain unveiled a new slogan: "Country first." When Obama traveled abroad in July, a McCain ad showed images of him addressing a Berlin crowd alongside the words "The biggest celebrity in the world." And now Palin is suggesting he doesn't feel the same way about America that most Americans...
...recent past. Students have also researched the evolution of war over the past few millennia. “The research projects went in a lot of different directions,” says Renzo Ampuero, one of the student actors. “Some people looked at American behavior abroad through history, some looked at myths of war through history…not just from the Greeks. We explored brotherhood and post-traumatic stress disorder. Throughout the process, we interviewed a lot of veterans and people in service.” Heidi Nelson, one of the dramaturges, says that when they...