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...early morning light slowly illuminates the mishmash of streets around the Krishnarajendra Market in central Bangalore, pushcart vendors wade through ankle-deep mud and cow manure and past heaping piles of cabbage leaves and rotting tomatoes. Skinny porters doubled over beneath burlap sacks full of vegetables shuffle through the quagmire, trying to avoid the trucks that belch blue clouds of diesel exhaust and the sacred but occasionally cantankerous cows munching on piles of trash. Women squat behind piles of vegetables they will carry to distant neighborhoods for a tiny profit. The grocery business in India is choreographed chaos, a commercial...
...never quite the wooden Indian his detractors made him out to be in 2000 (nor did he claim to have invented the Internet), but he did carry himself with a slightly anachronistic Southern formality that was magnified beneath the klieg lights of the campaign. And his fascination with science and technology struck some voters (and other politicians) as weird. "In politics you want to be a half-step ahead," says Elaine Kamarck, his friend and former domestic-policy adviser. "You don't want to be three steps ahead." But now his scientific bent has been vindicated. The Internet...
...drew on the vast musical vocabulary amassed during his barroom years, and used it to execute the material with arresting freshness. His new solo act emerged in 2000; effortlessly spanning genres and periods, and quoting songs within songs, it is perfectly attuned to ears raised on unfettered sampling, but beneath the complexity is the sincerity of a man celebrating all that is musical and the simple fact of being alive. This is the combination that lures the cognoscenti to Harry's. To date, A.-and-R. representatives from major labels have not been among them. In fact, Right on Time...
...mean today's hubs of aviation want to admit publicly how they might supplement their wind charts. The office of famed architect Norman Foster states that no feng shui consultants influenced its design for Hong Kong International Airport, though it believes a feng shui consultant helped with its location, beneath a ridge of peaks and close to a wide expanse of sea-both auspicious features. The Airport Authority Hong Kong declined comment...
...academic abattoir at Quincy and Mass Ave. nonetheless teems with students, pale and wretched beneath the library’s oppressive fluorescence. The overcrowding does wonders for the place’s Dantean ambiance, but it forces us to consider why people are so compelled to return to Lament (I hope this catches...