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...Tata group's global clout means that its chairman's thoughts get concrete results. Tata comprises 96 companies, including the world's second largest tea business (Tata Tea), Asia's largest software firm (Tata Consultancy Services), a steel giant (Tata Steel), a hotel chain (Indian Hotels) and a sprawling vehicle-manufacturing arm (Tata Motors) that includes a bicycle factory in Zambia and a project to make a car selling for $2,200. Since Tata became chairman in 1991, he has multiplied the Tata group revenues seven times to an annual $21.13 billion. Since 2000, the group's market value...
...someone who sees most of the movies that most interest him in venues other than traditional theaters, I can't disagree. I plunder the treasures at Kim's, a Manhattan video chain that embraces both the ineffable and the unspeakable - Kenji Mizoguchi and Jesus Franco. And I scan the Internet for films other people may think of as obscure, and I call essential. Who knows what the Essential Art House movies of the next 50 years will be? Nobody knows. But we can be pretty sure that we won't see them in theaters like the Brattle or the 55th...
...Germany next week to publicly address her accusations in the case - has issued a written statement to accompany the legal filing, which says, in part: "It was clear the knowledge and responsibility [for what happened at Abu Ghraib] goes all the way to the top of the chain of command to the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld...
...technical problems. As states and counties certified their new devices in October - and it's not uncommon for multiple types of machines to be used in almost every state - there were reports of glitches, ballot errors, machines communicating in the wrong languages with voters, and continued doubts about chain of custody in the wake of multiple reports that most of the machines can be easily hacked. More than 26 states have adopted some kind of verifiable audit trail so voters can check their choices against the machine, but many states lack a paper trail of any kind, contending that...
...prisoners are placed in chain-link enclosures called "dog runs," one per cage. Their cuffs are removed through a door slot. This is the only time the inmates actually see and interact with one another. "It is awkward adjusting my voice from the necessary yell of the cell block to the face-to-face conversation in the yard," Rudolph writes. "Unlike me the Arabs don't adjust the volume." Rudolph describes how his neighbors pair up in their separate runs and then "walk the length of the cage in unison, back and forth, yelling as they...