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...wealth at the bottom of the pyramid and say they are focused on how to improve the lives of India's hundreds of millions of poor."The economic growth we are experiencing must not be at the expense of social awareness and social responsibility," said Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in a speech at the conference in which she called for companies and government to do more for India's poor. "We still face some massive challenges...
...TIME's cover headline referring to President George W. Bush as "The Lone Ranger" [Nov. 6] was like calling Donald Rumsfeld Mahatma Gandhi. Don't you know your pop-culture history? The Lone Ranger was a gallant man who helped people in distress. He then rode away, not waiting for accolades. The only thing Bush has in common with the Lone Ranger is that he is from Texas. R. Lee Lawrence Los Angeles...
...time's cover headline referring to President George W. Bush as "The Lone Ranger" [Nov. 6] was like calling Donald Rumsfeld Mahatma Gandhi. Don't you know your pop-culture history? The Lone Ranger was a gallant man who helped people in distress. He then rode away, not waiting for accolades. The only thing Bush has in common with the Lone Ranger is that he is from Texas. R. Lee Lawrence Los Angeles I could accept that President Bush is, as you put it on the cover, "faltering in Iraq," "out of favor with his own party" and "increasingly isolated...
...savvy observer of the social and political environments that alternately nurture and throttle India's growth. With equal aplomb, he tackles topics such as the surging political power of India's lower castes, the rise and (apparent) decline of Hindu nationalism and the decline and (apparent) resurgence of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty. Luce also takes a stab at explaining the big regional differences in economic development within India. For example, a senior bureaucrat in the southern state of Tamil Nadu candidly tells Luce that about 30% of public funds meant for promoting literacy, roads and electrification in his state...
...campaign, Ellison says the hardest thing has been “making sure I take time to be with friends and family.” “You should be the change you want to see in the world,” Ellison said, quoting Mohandas Gandhi. “It was [at KSG] that I learned about responsibility. There are a lot of areas in the world that I saw needed to be changed...