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Rajesh Hukku was on a sales call in 2000 trying to persuade a large European bank to replace its crazy quilt of back-office software with his product. An executive gave him an unusual brush-off, telling him the bank's system was so complex that only God could figure it out. Hukku, the chairman and managing director of Bombay-based i-flex solutions, made a deft save. "Sir, we are Indians," he said. "We are very religious, and very close to God." Hukku won the business. Now he's trying to pull off another miracle: making his company...
...though they may hide the shopping bags, well-off parents are also finding their way into discount stores when shopping for their children's everyday wear. There they will brush shopping carts with parents of moderate budgets, who are able to find stylish and durable kids' clothing for every occasion. In the past several years, Wal-Mart and Target have gone to great--and successful--lengths to improve the quality of their private-label children's wear. Jill Rice, 34, a stay-at-home mother in Atlanta, says that while she prefers to shop for church or special-occasion clothing...
...becoming an artist and holding his first exhibition at the city-state's National Library in 1973. He converted to Buddhism that year, and his spiritual epiphany made him give up painting for four years, when he felt that enlightenment was more fulfilling than art. He picked up the brush again only when the then French embassy cultural attach? Michel Deverge threatened to end their friendship if he didn't. In 1978, Deverge helped Tan organize a successful exhibition of his works at the Gauguin Museum in Tahiti, and Tan has never looked back. Since then, his success has translated...
...summer day, artist Tan Swie Hian, 60, stands poised before a four-story-high canvas in the middle of St. Marcos Square, surrounded by Venice's celestial domes. Suddenly, Tan leaps toward the immense sheet, wielding his brush like a swordsman as he swiftly inscribes an immense poem; inky Chinese characters that tell of sleeping pillows and dreamy, butterfly wings. Singapore's most famous artist is doing at the Venice Biennale what he has long done back home in East Asia: combining East and West, through multiple disciplines, with the explosive precision of a bombmaker...
...Blankets" plays a major part in the complex yet simple experience of the book. Thompson combines the detail of illustration with the dynamism of cartoons in his wonderful black and white drawings. Using both pen and brush he moves effortlessly from realism to expressionism as when demons shoot out of Craig's mouth during a purging of his childhood drawings. The layouts carry through this playful variety with every conceivable kind of design. The comforting hum of a basement boiler wraps around a room and hugs it with warmth. Later when Craig departs from Raina, in a typically poignant image...