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...lack of progress wouldn't be so noticeable if India's marketing gurus hadn't raised expectations so high. Last year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, India's government and industries backed a publicity campaign dubbed "India Everywhere," which overwhelmed conference attendees with facts and figures about the wonderful new India. But since I arrived in India almost seven months ago from Africa, I have heard countless foreign businessmen and women in New Delhi and Mumbai (formerly Bombay) complaining about the gap between the image India projects and the reality. Last month, when I spoke...
...Americans, Moore comes across like some jolly ethnographer explaining the folkways of a backward tribe. In this respect, Sicko has played like a dream in Cannes, earning a 20-minute standing ovation. It may have done so even if Moore hadn't larded the film with adoring references to the French health system, and even if this weren't a good movie. But it is. The mix of facts and faces, outrage and sympathy, the telling anecdote and the surreal observation showcases Moore's savviness. So do his visits to Canada, Britain, France and, spectacularly, Cuba. Hearing Congressional testimony that...
...side. With these Serra wasn't merely addressing space; he was creating space of a new kind. Literally new. At one point Serra and his attorney thought of having the form trademarked. "We dropped the idea," he says, "but we knew we had come upon something that hadn't been done before...
...call one of Ticketmaster's phone banks to score seats. No other distributor had the worldwide labyrinth of retail partnerships and phone outlets to move millions of tickets in minutes. And they charged for it--as much as $15 on a $50 ticket. But the music industry, if you hadn't noticed, isn't quite what it used to be. Just as personal computers are replacing record stores and downloads will soon outpace CD sales, ticketing is experiencing a transformation all its own. "The Internet is the great equalizer," says Shapiro...
...know much and that's why he didn't tell us,'" said Representative John Spratt, a senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, "then the follow-up question is, 'Why didn't he know much?'" When Rumsfeld fielded questions at a press conference early last week, he still hadn't read the entire Taguba report either...