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...pile is Chetan Bhagat, whom fellow pop author Anirban Bose calls the "Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary of Indian mass-market publishing." Bhagat's three books, the first of which was published in 2004, have sold more than a million copies. One has been made into a Bollywood film and another is in production. "Chetan Bhagat's success demonstrated that there was a huge market for Indian fiction, with everyday Indian characters acting out everyday Indian stories," says Bose. "Publishers took note that homegrown talent was finding a voice, and that publishing authors like us was not only not risky...
...Seat The man who has to cure the ill-effects of the casino boom is the man who started it: Edmund Ho, a 53-year-old former accountant who became Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region when it was returned to China by Portugal in 1999. When Ho took over, Macau was economically dormant. The gaming industry was a moribund monopoly controlled by tycoon Stanley Ho (who is unrelated to Edmund). Many residents of nearby Hong Kong stayed away from the city's seedy casinos because they feared they might be caught up in the occasional burst...
...just a few years, Edmund Ho turned the city around. He cracked down on crime and, more importantly, he introduced competition to the gaming market by issuing new casino licenses in 2002. Today there are six gaming operators. Eager to tap the burgeoning wealth of a rising China, some of the biggest names in gambling, including Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts and MGM Mirage, came charging into Macau, and the economy roared. Ho was fêted as a miracle worker...
...During the Liberian civil war, Delle’s father, Edmund, gave refuge to torture victims. Witnessing what happened to political dissidents made a lasting impact on Delle...
...Arlo-hill (Who knowes not Arlo-hill?)” Arlo D. Hill ’08 first stumbled across this verse from Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene” after searching his name on Google, although he says that his name was probably more inspired by folk artist Arlo Guthrie than the Elizabethan poet.“My parents didn’t know of the reference,” says Hill, whose first name also happens to mean “hill.” “They wanted...