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...networks themselves. The U.S. is ranked 12th in the world in broadband speed and 15th in the world for broadband penetration. Not bad numbers, but U.S. providers are only now working on the next generation of broadband access, limited to 100 Mbps. By contrast, South Korea plans to give access to 1-Gbps connections countrywide by 2012 as part of a $24.6 billion plan to upgrade the country's infrastructure. The Federal Communications Commission will submit its own U.S. broadband plan in March, and Google is encouraging the government to be ambitious in its recommendations to telecommunications companies...
Would it not be a minimum gesture for the recipients of excessively large banking bonuses - which are totally disproportionate and cause resentment and disgust in the vast majority of people - to give three-quarters of their bonuses for the past three years to Haiti or to victims of other natural disasters? That might go some way to restoring bankers' disgraceful image. C. Kizlink, MONACO...
...Would it not be a minimum gesture for the recipients of excessively large banking bonuses - which are totally disproportionate and cause resentment and disgust in the vast majority of people - to give three-quarters of their bonuses for the past three years to Haiti or to victims of other natural disasters? That might go some way to restoring bankers' disgraceful image. C. Kizlink Monaco...
...Drama school was a new world, but not what he expected. "I thought somebody, somehow, would give me the secret to acting," he recalls. Indian theater then had nothing like the studios of method-acting guru Lee Strasberg or Stanislavski disciple Stella Adler to give actors tools and techniques. It had its roots in drawing-room melodramas and classical literature, including an ancient text, the Natyashastra, devoted to the theory of drama. "It even tells you where in the audience a critic should sit," Khan says. "But you cannot learn acting from that." So he immersed himself in the films...
...clean up the mess it took the Bush Administration eight years to create. And he has to do it while dealing with some of the worst partisanship I can recall in recent history. Anyone who remembers Economics 101 knows unemployment is the hardest and last problem to be solved. Give the President a break...