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...animators have never had it so good. In what could be the country's next outsourcing boom, a growing number of American companies are looking to India as a place where they can get high-quality computer-generated animation done on the cheap. Orders for cartoon serials, computer games, direct-to-home DVDs and demonstration videos are pouring into India; at least nine cartoon serials aimed at the American and European markets are in production. "The amount of work coming into India is phenomenal," says Rajiv Sangari, director of the animation unit at Padmalaya Telefilms, which recently signed...
...protesters' main punching bags?they distributed inflatable bludgeons imprinted with his caricature?was compelled to praise the march as "harmonious, with a touch of joyousness." The day after the march, a group of pro-democracy legislators asked Tung to request Beijing to reverse its decision in April to nix direct elections for the Chief Executive post and all the seats in the territory's Legislative Council. (Tung simply said he would have a meeting with the legislators to discuss the issue.) David Chu, a lawmaker from the pro-Beijing Progressive Alliance and a delegate to the National People's Congress...
...rationally and fairly. Though not in a conventional religious sense, Jefferson was a man of faith. He expected that certain abiding truths, more durable than any physical monuments, would continue to guide the conscience of the nation long after he was gone. "The good sense of our people will direct the boat ultimately to its proper point," he wrote. Through his thoughts, words and deeds, he tried to steer this vessel, but he knew in the end that its course was up to us, despite our confusion, despite our imperfection. He was far from perfect too. Institutions evolve and circumstances...
...Barbary States of North Africa--Algiers, Tunis, Morocco and Tripoli (today's Libya)--had for centuries sustained themselves by preying on the maritime commerce of others. Income was raised by direct theft, the extortion of bribes or "protection" and the capture of crews and passengers to be used as slaves. The historian Robert Davis, in his book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800, estimates that as many as 1.25 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved. The Barbary raiders--so called because they were partly of Berber origin--struck...
...months during the fall semester now lay in a tangled mess strewn across the platforms of suburban rail stations and along the narrow tracks on their approach to the Atocha train station. Dear friends, many of whom shared the daily commute with me, remained an ocean away, out of direct contact. Luckily no one I knew was hurt...