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...After peaking in early May, the Sensex plunged 30% in a matter of weeks, at one point tumbling 10% in just two hours. "It feels like the hangover after a big party," Chokhani says. Indian stocks rallied dramatically late last week, but for U.S. investors eyeing this mayhem from afar, the Indian market looks as risky as it is tempting. With stock prices down, is this the moment to invest on the cheap in what many believe will be the world's fastest-growing economy over the next 50 years...
...From afar, of course, this rhetorical crossfire can seem almost comically absurd. But as history has shown, it doesn't take much for a meaningless rock to become a battleground. It's a lesson that both sides would do well to remember...
...stories are so weighty. Although Harvard scholars are stereotyped these days as unhappy and overly serious, the University’s history certainly debunks that myth. Schlesinger describes Commencement in the early 1700s as a drunken affair that attracted visitors from afar, including Natick Indians, “the singing dwarfs, the dancing bears,” “cripples, [and] lunatics.…” In 1818, a fight in the Commons between the freshman and sophomore class led to the throwing of “cups, saucers, and dishes,” resulting...
...During Milosevic's 12-year rule in Serbia, I had often seen pictures of him in newspapers and on television. I even saw him two or three times in person, from afar, during his rare public appearances. But it was still something of a shock to meet him face to face-this man who shaped so much of my life as a journalist as well as the lives of thousands of others in my homeland. He was always a reclusive guy who seldom gave interviews...
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