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With the opening of the 143-room Ista Bangalore hotel, istahotels.com, the owners of India's renowned Himalayan spa retreat, Ananda, are hoping to bring that same blissful spirit of rejuvenation to the country's high-tech hub. But the Ista is first and foremost a business[an error occurred while processing this directive] hotel, so expect wi-fi Internet access in common areas, broadband in rooms and a business center open around the clock. Guest rooms are minimalist, with blond wood walls and understated furnishings. The healing powers of the rooms with a view of Ulsoor Lake are worth...
...band that’s been around since the early ’90s, but had never toured until last year. Initial reviews of their live shows had been tepid, at best, so we all had our doubts.Jesus Christ, were we wrong. Frontman David Berman is, first and foremost, a poet, and songs like “Dallas” and “Trains Across the Sea” were heart-wrenching and earnest to the point of goosebumps.Even a line like “I love you to the max” was total, front-on honest...
...legal claims,” the letter said. “Rather, these are matters of documented fact. Collectively, these facts demonstrate that you unfairly soiled the reputation of an individual who has spent his entire life earning, justifiably and on the merits, a reputation as one of the foremost mathematicians of our time.” Indeed, Yau was construed as a cheater trying to cash in on a loophole, while Perelman came off as a brilliant, ascetic saint who coasted above the fray. The 10,000-word piece was accompanied by a full-page caricature which depicted...
...that “false and defamatory” statements as well as “sensationalized quotes” had “unfairly soiled the reputation of an individual who has spent his entire life earning, justifiably and on the merits, a reputation as one of the foremost mathematicians of our time...
...Iraq is called a war, but for the U.S. it?s really a police action (our official word for the Vietnam involvement). The idea is for the troops to patrol the streets and keep people alive - the civilian population, if possible, but first and foremost themselves. Since there?s no draft, and thus no readily renewable supply of manpower, the goal is to keep U.S. combat deaths down while scoring the maximum number of enemy kills. "It?s peer pressure," says Marine Sean Huze, "group killing." In basic training, the Infantrymen were taught to take this war personally...