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...India's film industry is the most prolific in the world, with about 1,000 movies made each year (compared with Hollywood's 750), and they attract a global audience of 3.6 billion?a billion more than their American cousins. But until recently, Bollywood's talents were considered too foreign to make the jump to Europe or America. A handful of Indian directors and actors are escaping that mold, and now Rahman is breaking out too. The composer has long been a musical magpie, borrowing freely from an array of traditions: South Asian, Sufi, Irish folk, rock, reggae, even ragtime...
...certainly seems to attract those people who like a certain bit of hardship,” said senior Kip McDaniel, a stroke of the men’s heavyweight team...
Information about the Alternative Senior Gift has spread primarily through word of mouth and House e-mail lists, and the campaign continues to attract more students, LeCompte said...
Both Montauk and Bravo said they believe that La Vida will attract a broad audience of Harvard students who are interested in learning more about Latino life...
Meanwhile, semiconductors are creating trade friction with China. Last month Japan and the European Union publicly supported a complaint the U.S. filed with the World Trade Organization against Beijing for imposing a 17% tax on imported semiconductors while levying 3% on chips made domestically. The policy has helped attract chipmakers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to open plants on the mainland. One U.S. trade group estimates that at least 19 new semiconductor facilities will be built there by 2008. --By Julie Rawe...