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...delivery model and is looking at creating its own version with at least 100,000 centers across the country. Mishra, who has advised the government on how to set up such a system, says competition will be welcome. He believes Drishtee is perfectly placed to specialize in supply-chain management for companies hoping to reach the same market. "It's all about empowerment and giving people the tools to uplift themselves so they can compete with the outside world," says Mishra. "And we think there's a profitable market in that...
...Music history is too often treated as...a flat image representing a landscape that is in reality borderless and continuous.” Classical European composers outpaced their audiences while Americans began exporting their music for the people; extremist political leaders used threats and violence to chain musicians to their propaganda machines; in-fighting and trend-chasing doomed classical music’s withering popularity—it was no single force but an historical perfect storm that drove the public away.No one could be sadder about the separation than Ross, whose enthusiasm for music as music suffuses the book...
Born in Budapest, Munk immigrated to Canada in his teens, after World War II. He studied engineering at the University of Toronto before launching a consumer-electronics firm in the 1950s, only to see it succumb to U.S. and Japanese competition. Munk then built a chain of resorts in Fiji, called Southern Pacific Hotel Corp., and next dabbled in oil and gas, but lost heavily when energy prices collapsed in 1982. Munk turned to gold, he says, only when political unrest in South Africa during the 1980s presented what he saw as an irresistible opportunity. Hunting for safe neighborhoods...
...G.education, a Nagoya-based English-tuition chain, threw Nova a lifeline, agreeing to take over its operations. But it only plans to reopen some 200 of Nova's 669 remaining schools, and it won't be refunding fees, although some rival institutes are offering discounts for Nova students. That won't help former teachers like Kristen Moon, a 23-year-old English-education major from Philadelphia, who has been scraping by on private lessons she now gives to her former Nova students. "I'm living hand to mouth," she says. "Nova has ruined a lot of people's lives...
...mottled Proton sedans and boxy concrete houses, and wedged into the forested hills above the Malaysian port city of Johor Bahru, where the Anwar family has been prominent in politics since Malaysia's independence 50 years ago. Shaded by droopy banana trees, and crisscrossed by stray cats creeping through chain-link fences, the landscape lies somewhere between a sleepy kampong, or Malay village, and a soulless American suburb. "There is no culture around," Zakii says...