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Here are a few statistics from Suketu Mehta's stunning new book, Maximum City. In some parts of Bombay, you can find 1 million people in a single square mile. Two million of the city's residents lack access to latrines, and the air has 10 times the maximum permissible levels of lead (to breathe it in, as 5 million or more living on the streets do every second, is equivalent to smoking 2 1/2 packs of cigarettes a day). An unusually large number of criminals are either shot in "encounters" or tortured to death in detention in Bombay; four...
...development." More than two years after the U.S. began worrying about the export of American jobs to lower-cost countries, Europe has finally woken up to the "offshoring" threat. European companies have been moving some manufacturing facilities abroad for a decade to capitalize on lower wages and to gain access to new markets. But now many firms are asking if they can and should do the same with their service operations - and offshoring is becoming a potent political issue. With international communications costs falling rapidly, customer-service centers are obvious candidates for a move. But more skilled jobs such...
Larson (who goes by “Lars”) and Zarif are invented characters, played by actor George Calil and actor/producer Wali Razaqi, respectively. They are part of Johnston’s actual five-man crew, which skillfully uses the roleplay to gain access to warlords, bounty hunters, and Northern Alliance members who believe they are being interviewed for a genuine documentary...
...self-conscious, for although he is tiny, he has the composed presence of an old man. I think of my nine-year-old brother at home playing on his bike, and then of this nine-year old boy, sequestered in a house above a monastery to which the only access is a 2-hour hike through rainforest—and I am humbled...
...rather than British P.M. Tony Blair's "Third Way" - makes a great deal of sense in Labor's evolution. But there's a radical, even revolutionary, core to the mission: a devolution of power. Today, Latham argues, Australians are divided not so much on economic lines as by their access to information and influence. Latham identifies with the pragmatists of the suburbs rather than the detached, latte-sipping cosmopolitans. In Lathamland, "what matters is what works," not dogma or ideology. Latham has said he wants to put power back in the hands of local communities, give little people a voice...