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...this time the welcome mat won't get yanked: earlier this year, the government permitted foreigners to own a majority stake in Indian telecoms. Prashant Singhal, a telecom expert at Ernst & Young India, expects more big deals in the next couple of years. This freer market has its hang-ups, though. Vineet Nigam, an analyst at ICRA, an Indian ratings agency, points out that average revenue per mobile-phone customer is declining as competition increases and as companies expand from cities into small towns. Still, the number of Indians using a mobile phone will probably have grown 50% this year...
...traveling, careless love and felonious assault, the words he sang were places he'd been, got hurt in and learned from. That startling line in ?Folsom Prison Blues? - ?I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die? - is followed by ?When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry.? First the bad-man boast, then the sinner's remorse...
...fighter] looks like he’s Tarzan or from a Schwarzenegger movie, but a second later, you see the regret. We’re just creatures with all these feelings.”Further perverting the purity of this persona is Charlie’s choice of hang outs. In particular, he seems to spend almost all of his time inhabiting strip clubs and doused in alcohol. “Why someone would spend Christmas Eve at a strip club in Wichita is a philosophically open question,” he says...
...Okay, hang on, now I’m really confused. And it’s all NBC’s fault. In what may be one of the most earnest November Sweeps stunts in recent memory, the network ran a televised debate between two fictional candidates on “The West Wing” last Sunday—live. Clearly, NBC is desperately trying to re-energize the veteran series. Apparently I’m not the only one who misses the marvelous alliteration of “West Wing Wednesday.” Sweeps stunt aside, the show?...
Harvard students may be forced into cramped rooms in awful-smelling dorms, but they can hang artwork by Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns on their walls. The Student Rental Program at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum allows students to rent highly valued artwork each fall for only $25, $45, or—at the very most?...