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...cricket became a cornerstone of popular culture in India - and South Asia (neighboring Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh all share India's passion for the game) became the spiritual and commercial home of the game. Although the World Cup is being staged in the former British colonies of the Caribbean - which field a combined team, the West Indies - satellite television will ensure that its biggest audience will be in India. Indeed, the rights to televise the game on Indian domestic television alone sold for $612 million last year, dwarfing the amount it fetches in such older cricket-playing nations...
...Given the game's capacity to "stop life" here, it may be a good thing for India's economy that games played by daylight in the Caribbean run from around 7 p.m. until 3 or 4 in the morning, local time. Many employers have already said they will allow employees to start work slightly later than normal, while a few companies that operate at night have arranged for television coverage so no one misses out. Bangalore-based Infosys BPO, which operates call centers for companies in Europe and the U.S., has even arranged for big screens just outside the main...
...corporations and the Guyanese government itself to comply with current international human rights law. Docherty encouraged students interested in helping those negatively affected by the Guyanese mining industry to support environmental research and human rights advocacy. Alexander C. Paddington ’07, publicity chair for the Harvard College Caribbean Club, expressed a willingness to collaborate with other student groups to help raise campus awareness about the issue. Paddington said that the club has not worked extensively on human rights issues in the past, but that problems such as those raised in the report could lead the organization to consider...
...about the unknown Ivy Leaguer. Soccer bloggers raised their eyebrows—“I can’t find too much fault with his game,” read one blog called Du Nord—and simultaneously downplayed Akpan’s performance against an unexceptional Caribbean team with a middling goalkeeper...
...Tony Barriteau, the director of athletics at Arlington’s Oakridge School, which Akpan attended all the way from K-12, speaks with a distinctive Caribbean lilt (he is a native of Trinidad) when he calls the town “a very diverse community...