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...arrived; by the '80s, the number had jumped to a quarter-million. The immigrants often took jobs Americans had turned down because the pay was low or the location remote. "There would be an opening for a surgeon in Champagne, Ill.," says Fareed Zakaria, a Bombay-born academic who is managing editor of the prestigious quarterly Foreign Affairs, "and an Indian would take...
Nisha S. Agarwal '00 spent three months on the Bombay pavement with a group of impoverished women. She studied their success in constructing their own homes and their mobilization for electricity...
Agarwal spent three months in Bombay, but Randolph A. G. Bell '00 also spent three months away from his bed for his award-winning film thesis: "It's Only a Tattoo...
...technicians arrived, they found 2,000 corrupted messages in his Out box and spent the rest of the day wrestling with the damage. "I was terrorized," says Cecolini. "My stomach was in knots." Old Westbury, N.Y., businessman Kamal Dandona's experience was even more nightmarish. Organizer of a major Bombay film industry-awards show to be held this month in Uniondale, N.Y., Dandona lost posters, press releases and digital photos of every major Hindi film star--all gobbled up by the virus...
Back ashore last week, Saylor took his idea public, pledging $100 million to create a nonprofit "online Ivy League-quality university." And then came an even bigger revelation. He says it will allow everyone, from cabbie in Bombay to housewife in L.A., to earn a top-notch degree--for free. "If you put a professor's best performance of his life online, you can make something even better than Harvard," says Saylor, an M.I.T. graduate...