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...Living in the West, where democracy is taken for granted, I tend to forget how hard some countries must fight to hold on to it. With a population of 1 billion people, Indians have to fight at least 10 times as hard as any Westerner to be heard. And even then, most of their voices are drowned out by the shouts of corrupt investors and politicians. Yet wondrously enough, each citizen wakes up every morning with the perseverance to keep India afloat. Robinson claimed that unfulfilled expectations raised by marketing campaigns such as "Incredible India" only make Westerners realize...
...feel somber thinking about the situation, but whenever I see my aunt she has a smile on her face. It is a smile that gives me a new perspective: sometimes, I am too busy to enjoy life and forget simple joys. I understand that is okay to feel sad, and that I should not allow the sorrow to permeate the atmosphere. Her smile tells me that I should look on the brighter side of things and be productive, get things done, rather than sulk around and dwell on the pessimistic...
...Just don't forget that any stock comes with risks. On June 22, the day of Blackstone's IPO, the Wall Street outfit Bear Stearns, which has been publicly traded for two decades, announced that it would spend up to $3.2 billion bailing out an internally run hedge fund that was flailing from bad bets in the declining sub-prime mortgage market. The stock dropped more than 4% for the week...
...Living in the west, where democracy is taken for granted, I tend to forget how hard some countries must fight to hold on to it. With a population of 1 billion people, Indians have to fight at least 10 times as hard as any Westerner to be heard. And even then, most of their voices are drowned out by the shouts of corrupt investors and politicians. Yet wondrously enough, each citizen wakes up every morning with the perseverance to keep India afloat. Robinson claimed that unfulfilled expectations raised by marketing campaigns such as "Incredible India" only make Westerners realize...
...classic films, from Citizen Kane to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, the sleazerrific Russ Meyer movie that Roger co-wrote in his 20s. As the go-to movie savant, he's been on hundreds of TV shows, sometimes alone, sometimes with his review-show partners; who can forget that night in the '80s when David Letterman persuaded Roger and Gene to toss basketballs at a makeshift hoop? And there've been countless speaking engagements, most of them to proselytize for the art and pleasure of movies. At some of these events he leads an in-depth discussion of some...