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...Still, the IIT boosters are aware of the challenges of globalization and those it leaves behind. Immelt said India's success will be defined by its ability "to make the pie bigger." Hillary Clinton, who spoke by satellite to the crowd (a decision that left many at the conference wondering whether she was trying to distance herself from India), asked these engineers, scientists and business people to use their skills to create "a shared prosperity for America and India." IIT graduates helped build the technology that made globalization possible. Perhaps they'll also be the ones who make it work...
...smaller shows seemed well-attended, if a bit schizophrenic: the Tokyo concert segued from the gentle folk of Japanese pop star Cocco, who tearfully sang about manatees threatened by a military base on her home island of Okinawa, to the American rap-metal group Linkin Park, who urged the crowd to "get rowdy...
Traveling widely and feted by the wealthy and well-connected, Garibaldi was a favorite in Victorian England of what historian Rohan McWilliams calls a precursor to the "radical chic" crowd. His mix of egalitarianism, insurgent tactics and rugged sex appeal made him a forerunner of Argentine Marxist Che Guevara. Though T-shirts may be rare, after his death Garibaldi's name would adorn monuments, towns and mountain ranges from Rome to New York City, from Russia to Brazil...
...year-old Pope cites Catholics for whom the Tridentine rite "had been familiar to them from childhood." As those generations pass there may be ever fewer faithful who are attached to the old Mass, and Benedict is simply providing a sort of bridge for the current over-50 crowd...
...Monday morning, Harvard affiliates awoke to a surprise e-mail invitation to the ice cream social. The event drew a diverse crowd including students from the Summer School and Extension School, several undergraduates, Cambridge residents, and tourists, lured by both the buckets of Klondike bars and Italian ices and the chance to snap a picture with the new president...