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...details of their lives and customs are remarkable, and all Dalrymple has to do is let his voice recorder run. In Rajasthan, we learn, traditional singers, usually illiterate, can recite texts 626 pages long and, in the process, it is believed, cure sick cows and exorcise the possessed. Their illiteracy, Dalrymple explains, allows them to hold lines in their heads as readers never could. In a fire-lit cremation ground in Bengal, we see politicians, even communists, coming to a woman regarded as a witch to sacrifice goats in advance of an election. The woman, who lives among jackals...
...plays Alexis, describing him as the character that sets everything in motion. “He’s convinced that love will solve all problems. He’s obsessed with the notion of love being indiscriminate to age, rank, beauty, fortune, and [of it being] the cure for all ills,” he says. Those who attend the show on both weekends of its run will get to see two different takes on the role, however. Scheduling conflicts necessitated that Ben J. Nelson ’11 covers the part for the first weekend, while MacQuitty will...
...those homes won't wind up being repossessed, right? In a normal market, probably a majority of homeowners that wind up being delinquent or even in the early stages of default find a way to cure their loan. Right now the numbers aren't quite as promising. Probably over 50% of the homes that enter foreclosure will wind up going back to the banks. But it is still a fairly large number that either through loan modifications or short sales or refinancing do manage to avoid foreclosure...
...years away from seeing their first profits in this high-risk, high-return business. Their trade association, BIO, says that in the past 11 months, at least 40 of them have cut back or eliminated drug-development programs. The venture capitalists who invest in them "aren't looking to cure Parkinson's disease as much as they are looking for a return on their investments," says Greenwood. "They're just as happy to put their money into the next iPod." But increasingly, the big players in the pharmaceutical industry are moving into the biologics business themselves, either by investing...
...resolved - in favor of protecting the biotech industry or opening up the market to generics - may say a lot about which interest groups will ultimately reap the windfall of the big-stakes battle in Washington. What it means for consumers is somewhat murkier: Will a miracle cure be there when you need one? And if it is, will you be able to afford it? Those are questions that hinge on whether the rest of us can trust Congress to find proper balance between competition and innovation...