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...Generation" [Nov. 24] are in turn often bringing up a generation of motherless kids in rich countries - kids whose mothers return to work before their children are of school-going age; kids who spend long days with Filipina nannies as "surrogate mothers." Few children - rich or poor, in whichever corner of the globe - prefer gifts and toys to the presence of their mothers. In both cases, the mothers' drive to provide for their offspring financially seems to avoid the simplest of facts: parenting cannot be outsourced. Juliet Linley, ROME...
Leopold Café has a row of wide arched doors that open to the busiest tourist street in Mumbai. There are a cluster of clubs around the corner; outside you can buy 10 different T-shirts that feature elephants or camels or many-armed gods...
...summer. The food was terrible: five kinds of sizzlers and “chilly chicken.” But Leopold’s was a convenient meeting place, full of dreadlocked backpackers and girls tan from the beaches of Goa. I kept finding myself at a table in the corner...
...issue here is that most of the Fortune 500 boards require the boss to fly in the corporate jet. And why not? What's the point of achieving the big corner office, knifing all those people on your way to the top, if you don't have the ultimate travel ticket? You might as well stop at divisional vice president. That should be no less true for the Detroit Three. Ford boss Alan Mulally left an aircraft company, Boeing, to take the top job at the auto company - the man is used to big jets...
...what makes a good 'gator: "The best interrogators are outstanding actors. Once they hit that booth, their personalities are transformed. They can tuck their reactions and biases into some remote corner of their minds and allow a doppelgänger to emerge. What doppelgänger is most likely to elicit information from a detainee changes from prisoner to prisoner. Sometimes I must have a wife or children, so I can swap stories with the prisoner, though I have neither...