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Patchett takes us to an unnamed South American country, where terrorists intend to abduct the president from a birthday party in honor of a prominent Japanese businessman. However, when they discover that the president is not in attendance, the terrorists instead hold the entire party hostage...
...There is a different set of expectations now," says Vijay Chandru, an academic-turned-businessman. "People have a better idea of what they want and that can create problems if they don't get it." Chandru, who heads Strand Life Sciences, a six-year old company that consults to big pharma firms, says that violent revolution is extremely unlikely but that other problems - rising crime, resentment, social instability, pockets of armed rebels - will get worse unless the gap between India's rich and poor can be narrowed. "There's obviously enough concern that everyone is talking about it," he says...
...most conservative Islamic heartland of Central Anatolia. A string of ancient cities known as the "Anatolian Tigers" are enjoying annual economic growth rates of over 10%, doubling their exports - mostly to Europe and the U.S. - over the past five years. "We are already in the E.U.," a local businessman, who sells jeans to Zara and Lee, told TIME...
...people thronged Budapest's old cobblestoned streets wearing red, white and green boutonnieres, tossing red, white and green ribbons into passing cars. Then gradually the crowd began to gather at focal points and to express its will, and then to march. A scared Communist official told an American businessman: 'The earth is moving.' The earth moved to the tread of a million feet in Hungary last week, and a satellite which had been blindly spinning in the Soviet orbit for eleven years suddenly swung out of its gravitational course into a still unsteady national axis. It had never happened before...
...Still, Ahdab, a multi-lingual businessman from a prominent Tripoli family, believes the root of Lebanon's political crisis lies in a fundamental disagreement over the future identity of Lebanon. Does Lebanon want to remain a pluralistic, open society or join the Syrian-Iranian alliance of anti-Western states? he asks. "An agreement is needed on what kind of Lebanon we want for the future," he says. Until that happens, Ahdab and his political colleagues will continue to remain vigilant and wary of the threat that lurks in Lebanon's darker corners...