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...undisputed engine of growth. India's IT powers, among them companies like TCS, Infosys Technologies and Wipro, rose to prominence largely on the decisions made by American executives, who were quick to capitalize on the cost savings to be gained by outsourcing noncore operations, such as systems programming and call centers, to specialists overseas. Focusing on the U.S. produced some spectacular results. Revenues in India's IT sector surged from $4 billion in 1998 to $59 billion in the country's fiscal year ended March 31. But recession has caused a dramatic deceleration as companies in the U.S. and Europe...
Whose War Is It Anyway? Just as the Vietnam War was not Kennedy's or Lyndon Johnson's war but one generated by vested interests, it is disingenuous for Joe Klein to call Afghanistan "Obama's War" [Dec. 14]. The U.S. created the mess. Whatever initiative the Pentagon may come up with, al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden - who have won the hearts and minds of the majority that matters - remain a force that will haunt the U.S., just as the mujahedin did the Soviet Union. Saber Ahmed Jazbhay Durban, South Africa...
Minnesota’s third goal in the period looked to be a wakeup call for the Crimson, who started putting more pucks on the net after that point. Though the squad was unable to take advantage of a power play, Morin scored his second goal of the night—and of the season—a minute later to put Harvard back within...
Observing the critic's code of scrupulous fairness, I have to say that Leap Year becomes very nearly bearable in the last reel, when the two leads can finally radiate a little mutual charisma. That's mostly thanks to Goode, who had what we'll call the Jeremy Irons role in the 2008 Brideshead Revisited remake, and who is Colin Firth's lover in A Single Man. Here he agreeably inhabits his character even as he somehow stands outside the film, fixing it with the same skeptical eye Declan focuses on Anna. "The countryside's pretty...
...looks the way she does: high cholesterol. Vito Franco of the University of Palermo has spent his spare time applying his medical expertise to the study of famous subjects of Renaissance artworks. And in the first formal collection of his findings, Franco has concluded that the woman whom Italians call "La Gioconda" suffered from xanthelasma, the accumulation of cholesterol just under the skin. Franco told the newspaper La Stampa this week that he spotted clear signs of the condition around Mona Lisa's left eye as well as evidence of a lipoma, a fatty-tissue tumor, on her right hand...