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...growing opposition, India's retail heavyweights are digging in. "We stand committed to what we have set out to achieve," Mukesh Ambani, chairperson and managing director of Reliance Industries, told shareholders at the annual general meeting last week, adding that resistance to big retail would abate once benefits begin to show. Another conglomerate, the $4.5 billion Mahindra Group, announced plans to enter the organized retail fray on the same day as the Mumbai protest. India's government, in a possible attempt to placate its leftist partners, has commissioned a study on the impact of organized retail on small stores...
...After much dumpster diving and duct-taping, the four designers managed to straggle back to the Crimson (but, alas, not all by noon) with outfits in tow, and the show was ready to begin...
...judges, pose, walk towards the judges, pose, and then sit down” (repeated thrice for the sake of the models) M. “MC” Aidan Kelly ’08 gave the cue for the music—and the show—to begin...
...that holier-than-thou attitude that gives America's enemies more ammunition. I don't wish to condone Ahmadinejad's policies, only to say that we will get nowhere by childishly ignoring him. Eventually, no matter how much it deflates our self-esteem, we will have to begin an open dialogue with our enemies. There are too many to simply dismiss them as tyrants and ostracize them from the global community. Currently, our only policies for dealing with hostile nations consist of sanctions and military action, and America's troops are already overextended. Mitchell Kinnen, CINCINNATI, OHIO...
Three Pennypacker residents living on the same floor were diagnosed with scabies over the weekend, forcing dozens of freshmen to throw their wardrobes into the wash and begin cautionary treatment for the skin disease. Students reporting rashes first came to University Health Services (UHS) early Saturday afternoon, and administrators notified students of the outbreak shortly thereafter. Scabies, a highly contagious but treatable skin disease, is caused by mites that burrow under the skin and lay egg, spread through direct skin-to-skin contact between people or through clothes and bedding. The disease leaves a rash or tiny blisters or bumps...