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...Ojha plans to pack up and leave once his children finish school, and he's hardly alone. Every day thousands of Biharis cram the state's railroad platforms to join the millions who have already migrated to a new life, becoming the unskilled backbone of industries as diverse as the construction business in Kashmir, the cotton houses of Bombay and the farms of Punjab. Census takers say a third of Champaran's population has taken part in the exodus. Long before his own kidnapping, Salahuddin sent all three of his sons to New Delhi to study and work. "Our society...
...wants to disappoint a machine that has worked so hard?--I lost a lot of sleep watching things I wasn't quite in the mood for. Take the night I stayed up bleary-eyed through the three-hour Russian version of Solaris just so TiVo could cram the next day's Simpsons and West Wing onto its NOW PLAYING list. There must, I knew, be a way to make TiVo work a little harder...
...Orchard Thief into a screenplay, Cage desperately wishes to remain true to the original text rather than stuff the work into a typical Hollywood cliché-fest. When he meets a producer with other ideas, Cage complains that he doesn’t want to “cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or overcom[ing] obstacles to succeed in the end. The book isn’t like that and life isn’t like that. It just isn?...
...wants to disappoint a machine that has worked so hard?--I lost a lot of sleep watching things I wasn't quite in the mood for. Take the night I stayed up bleary-eyed through the three-hour Russian version of Solaris just so TiVo could cram the next day's Simpsons and West Wing onto its NOW PLAYING list. There must, I knew, be a way to make TiVo work a little harder...
...year-old Pütz got hers 12 years ago, by attending six months of all-day classes on business management and crafts law at a cost of more than €12,000. Pütz's 21-year-old apprentice Susan, however, may not need to cram for a master's exam; the qualification, which dates back to the country's medieval guilds and exists nowhere else in Europe except Luxembourg, might be on the way out. German Economy and Labor Minister Wolfgang Clement says the Meisterbrief is a means of "market-access restriction" and its abolition will provide...