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...activists in favor of a "united Andhra" took their lives in protest of the state's splitting. The turmoil has also plunged Hyderabad, a booming, cosmopolitan I.T. hub, into panic as politicians and business leaders fret over the costs of the current instability. "This will be a total flop as investors will flee," says Amruthraj Padmanabhundi, a 27-year-old I.T. professional in Hyderabad. "I am very worried [about] my prospects slipping...
...interview will be "lighthearted" and "fun.") But it turns out your impressions of her from Couric are probably mistaken too. Did it seem that, when Couric asked what newspapers and magazines she read, Palin filibustered, unable to think up a single title? Wrong! What the untrained eye saw as flop sweat was actually annoyance at Couric's condescension, says Palin; also, she was edited to look bad. (Palin has a way of making edited sound sinister in itself, as if most TV interviews were aired uncut...
...traditionalists to become the core of Catholicism in the West. But a well-placed Vatican official says the procedures are designed so that would-be Anglican priests would choose celibacy, and eventually begin to blend in with fellow Catholics. Still, others expect the new policy to be a flop, with relatively few Anglicans crossing over. (Read: "Saving Grace...
...would have women replacing this steamy bedside material outright with Newsweek or the Economist. One is certainly entitled to one’s own opinion on the issue. Personally, after a long day of dealing with papers, personal drama, and general stress, I feel a strong urge to flop down and read something light and fluffy, like Cosmo’s “Red Hot Reads.” And we all need a few new pointers now and then—just not for his body and desires alone...
When Congress wrote the Build America Bond program into February's $787 billion economic-stimulus bill, many predicted a flop. Nine months later, the municipal-bond program, which provides a federal subsidy to help states and other local governments raise funds, looks to be one of the economic recovery effort's biggest successes. Earlier this month, the volume of BABs, as they have come to be called, crossed the $50 billion mark...