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...skills, their interpersonal and communication skills lag far behind. A study by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), the leading software and outsourcing industry body, foresees a shortage of a half million IT professionals by 2010, mostly because existing graduates lack the "soft skills" needed to fit into a cosmopolitan work environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dale Carnegie Comes to India | 4/15/2008 | See Source »

...learned here, basic principles like 'Ask questions instead of giving direct orders,' are a given in [international corporations]. Everyone picks up these skills along the way, and if you want to join the ranks, you must learn these too. It's like learning to speak the lingo and to fit in," says Gerald Santiago, who previously worked at AOL and is hoping to join Infosys soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dale Carnegie Comes to India | 4/15/2008 | See Source »

...Unconsciously, she had been running her fingers back and forth across the shell of her pet turtle, Orlando. Some months ago, in a fit of boredom, she had encrusted its shell with sapphires and peridots, moonstones and jade. Too weary to argue with her, Frederick had paid...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...sudden fit of passion, she clutched the rotting reptile to her breast. “I want to feel,” she gasped, as the gems’ cold facets dug into her yielding flesh. “I need to feel again...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...will remain so until the last drop of my blood," Sadr said in a statement responding to the comments by Gates. "If you don't withdraw from our land or set a timetable for withdrawal acceptable to the Iraqi people, we will resist in the way we see fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Front in the Sadr Standoff | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

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