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...small office in the Southwest. You send a message through your clothing, and you want to know what that is." Then the particulars: "Your glasses are fine. You could go to a slightly hipper style without being funky. Let me see your watch. What kind is it?" A Citizen. "It's an O.K. watch, but if you want to move it up a notch, you have to move up your watch a notch." My carrying case, admittedly plain, needs to go. Get a Coach bag, she advises. I need to upgrade my pen too: a Cross or a Montblanc would...
...Guru's hero, played by Abhishek, is named Gurukant Desai, and Ratnam has insisted that any similarities are coincidental: "The film is purely fictional and could be based on anyone's life." Sure, and Citizen Kane wasn't inspired by the life of William Randolph Hearst. Guru's plot frequently references Dhirubhai's life story. And unlike Kane, this movie dispenses with the muckraking for hagiography. The Ambani estate is protective of its founder's legacy, but at least two members of the family gave their blessing to Guru's stars: Dhirubahi's son Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Capital...
...will never support democrats in Azerbaijan because of their oil interests," says Guluzadeh. But Azeris might start to demand more democracy if oil revenues do not trickle down. The country is listed as one of the world's most corrupt by the Berlin-based Transparency International. "The average citizen is very suspicious of the government," says a Western official in Baku, who did not want to be named. "But if the oil wealth is not distributed, you will see people wanting a change...
...patrols and increased traffic checkpoints between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. But much more will be needed to beef up a cash-strapped judicial system and shorthanded police force, and to overcome deep-set systemic problems such as poverty, an abysmal public education system and widespread citizen mistrust of the police...
...once too cynical to think an undergraduate education would change me at all. I was wrong, for a transformation has taken place. My education—including what I took to be obscure and trivial accoutrements—has subtly made me into a citizen of the world. Such a fellow may well be more an oddity in Montana, but he’s surely relevant elsewhere. Right? Maybe? Dean Gross...