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...plot hinges on a takeover bid by one branch of the Lohias for the whole company. There is the patriarch, whose dignified conduct leaves him helpless in the face of the aggressive global marketplace; his dissolute nephew, rebelling after years of frustrated obedience; and his daughter, a young woman becoming keenly aware of her sexual power. Such drama could easily veer into soap opera, but Chowdhury uses his experience as a business journalist to turn the machinations of finance into the stuff of suspense, elegantly connecting the shadowy moneylenders of Mumbai to the gleaming towers of Hong Kong...
...after nearly 62 years as an independent nation, India is still not getting enough real change from its exercise of democracy. Indira Gandhi ran on the slogan "Garibi Hatao" (Abolish Poverty) in 1971. Her Congress Party, led by her daughter-in-law Sonia and grandson Rahul, is promising the same thing 38 years later, though less poetically ("Inclusive Growth"). And yet in Rae Bareli and Amethi, the two constituencies that the Gandhi family has represented almost without interruption, literacy is below the national average, less than 40% of villages have electricity and most of the roads are unpaved. The Congress...
...School of Dental Medicine after a dental student was suspected to have swine flu. “He’s been able to do so many things as a physician, all the things that he’s really good at,” Rosenthal’s daughter Laura Hrasky said. Rosenthal’s career also reaches far beyond Harvard’s walls. He was the President of the American Cancer Society in 1998 and remains involved with the organization. Rosenthal has also been the medical director of the Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies...
...that Berlusconi had attended the girl's 18th birthday party and showered her with expensive gifts. Two days after the aggrieved spouse made the charge, she asked for a divorce. The Prime Minister stated publicly that he'd known Letizia only through her parents, and the father declared his daughter "chaste," saying Berlusconi was an acquaintance he had made through local politicians. But the center-left daily La Repubblica and opposition leader Dario Franceschini have hammered away at inconsistencies in the Prime Minister's account of his relationship with the family. Then on Thursday, Berlusconi broke a long silence about...
...introduced Sotomayor at the White House on Tuesday, he was also drawn to her by her "extraordinary journey" in life. It could be said to have begun with a journey her parents made during World War II, when they moved from Puerto Rico to New York City, where their daughter was born in 1954. Sotomayor was 3 when the family found an apartment at the Bronxdale Houses, a city-owned development built to provide affordable housing to working-class families. Her father died when Sotomayor was just 9 - one year after she was given a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes...