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...Ambani boys appear to have absorbed their father's deft political touch too. Reliance triggered a row last year over its ability to enter the cell-phone market via a side door, without having to pay the high fees required of government-sanctioned operators. Despite the controversy, Reliance paid a $116 million penalty--which its critics said was a bargain--and continued to grab market share. Mukesh says he's determined to keep Reliance growing. His father demonstrated that Indian companies can be modern, vital and competitive. The sons have picked up the torch. "People will remember you after...
Looks can certainly be deceiving. Listed at 6’5 and 225 pounds, senior Dennis Packard of the Harvard men’s hockey team doesn’t look agile, nor does he look like he’d be suited to the deft, fast-paced game of college hockey. Yet only a glimpse of the winger in action tells an altogether different tale...
...forward from Michigan, Maki is light on his feet for a big man—“For a big guy, he moves very well,” Mazzoleni said—and equally deft on offense and on the penalty kill. But it’s his offense that has been raising eyebrows in recent days...
Gossip Guy would like to use the remaining inches of the column to present the first annual Ruth C. Havel '05 Award, for best sense of humor in the face of overwhelming gossip and most deft use of plausible deniability, to none other than Ruth C. Havel '05 herself. In a week of heightened sensitivities on campus, Harvard’s very own master and commander, Havel, instead of getting mad, got revenge, as only she knows how. Ouch...
Poor Bruce Cumings. Familiar with him? He’s the University of Chicago professor who recently came out with a literary apologia for the excesses of Kim Jong Il’s dictatorship. His timing was about as deft as Al Gore’s endorsement of Howard Dean...