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...decade ago, Whitefield, a remote suburb of Bangalore, made headlines on those rare occasions when gangs of armed bandits burst into homes at night. Today that former stretch of farmland and scattered houses is disturbed only by giant cranes, cement mixers and trucks piled up with white sand. Buildings of glass and steel are rising all over, as Bangalore's fast-expanding outsourcing industry radiates far beyond the city. Perhaps the most impressive spot in Whitefield is the campus of SAP Labs. The main building, with its comfortable sofas and a sunny atrium, is a sumptuous workplace by Indian standards...
...more companies to follow TCL abroad and "make China a strong country." Ma is worried that history could repeat itself. During Japan's economic bubble in the 1980s, cash-rich Japanese companies went on a U.S. buying spree, only to see their high-profile investments sour when the bubble burst. "We don't want to end up like the Japanese," Ma says. Sometimes it's better to stay home than...
After 27 years in the public eye, Bernard-Henri Lévy is France's iconic postmodern intellectual. A writer, director, philosopher and humanitarian activist, he has been called everything but shy. Since he burst into public view in 1977 as a founding member of the "new philosopher" movement - which urged action over purely conceptual thought, and broke leftist ranks by denouncing Soviet communism as fascism - the mediagenic BHL (as he's usually known) has been relentless. He has published countless essays and more than 30 books, including his 2003 "investi-novel" Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, a partly fictionalized investigation...
...bunch of Buddhists, they were pushy: when Thich Nhat Hanh finally stepped out of immigration, they surged forward with a force that crushed people against doors and tore sandals, hats and gloves off dozens of others. "I touched him! I touched him!" shouted one woman, who then burst into tears...
...with expansion comes pressure, and we are about to burst at the seams,” Mahan said...