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...By age??38, Vivek Paul had already seen his American Dream come true. He arrived in the U.S. from India as an M.B.A. student in 1980, worked hard, married, started a family and rose to a top job at GE, having been recruited by Jack Welch himself. Then, in 1999, Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, an Indian conglomerate, called him back to India. He asked Paul, a former water-polo captain, to take over his software unit, Wipro Technologies. "He said, 'You can build another skyscraper in New York,'" Paul says, "'or you can build a completely new thing...
It is very sad that people in this day and age??of scientific discovery still cling to old superstitions. If we would accept that this is the only life we have and stop yearning for a nonexistent afterlife, maybe humanity would make the world of today a better place.WILLIAM MCWHINNEY Coral Springs...
Talent helps. But another reason the film succeeds is that Director Hill allows the kids to be madly romantic?they are 13, it's the right age???without sentimentalizing them. The ceremonial kiss in the gondola is the movie's steamiest scene, and active sexuality for these two is well in the future. But there is no pretense that it is not coming. Daniel and a buddy persuade Lauren to see a porno flick. She watches for a few minutes, then walks out, feeling sick. Daniel follows, ashamed of himself, trying to comfort her. Lauren nods; she is all right...
...been severed. In colonial times, elderly people were fewer, but they held the best jobs. Nor did they budge from their posts until death or ill health forced them out. In 17th century New England, 90% of the ministers and magistrates died in office. People showed their respect for age???and power ?by attempting to look older than they were. They powdered their hair and wore the severely cut clothing of the aged...
...verge of producing the permanently affluent society. Keynesian policies had kept recessions brief, mild and infrequent; the end of World War II opened the longest period of sustained growth ever. American Economist George Stigler announced that "economics is finally at the threshold of its Golden Age???nay, we already have one foot through the door...