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...Meadows, who admits to once being a "skin" himself, argues that skinheads were amongst Britain's first anti-racists, mixing with newly arrived waves of West Indian immigrants with whom they indulged a mutual love of reggae and ska. Hailing from a staunchly working-class background, Meadows, 35, dropped out of school as a teenager and later made his first films while subsisting on welfare benefits in his native Nottingham. He hit critical acclaim with his 1999 second feature, A Room for Romeo Brass, set in a Yorkshire mining town on the skids...
...business by engaging in profit-destroying fare wars. Air Deccan, for example, advertises a special fare of just $6.60 plus taxes for a flight from New Delhi to Jaipur. Add in higher fuel prices and you've got a recipe for red ink. Analysts put collective losses for Indian airlines at $500 million last year, following a couple of years of robust profit growth...
...result: industry consolidation amid plenty. In March, the government approved a long-planned merger between state-owned carriers Air India and Indian Airlines; meanwhile, Jet Airways, the country's largest full-service carrier, is buying rival Air Sahara for $340 million. The mergers are "an attempt by players to basically get some kind of stability into the market," says Kapil Kaul, New Delhi-based CEO for India and the Middle East at CAPA. "There's been a massive induction of capacity over the past few years. What we're seeing now is sanity beginning to prevail...
...That's certainly what the Indian government hopes will happen by combining Air India, which flies mainly internationally, and Indian, which concentrates on domestic routes. The state-run carriers have been losing market share to better-managed private airlines for years. India's Minister for Civil Aviation, Praful Patel, says the merger will improve operating efficiencies and cut costs by up to $150 million a year. Similar competitive advantages are being sought by Jet Airways. Jet became India's most successful airline after launching in 1993, but in recent years it has lost market share to low-cost upstarts like...
...concentrations offered at the College. Many of them will choose one of the most popular: government, economics, biology, or social studies. But a fraction of undergraduates will go against the tide, picking one of Harvard’s smallest concentrations, such as statistics, folklore and mythology, or Sanskrit and Indian studies.But these more obscure concentrations can propel their members to distant and diverse futures—even if their specificity might raise eyebrows at a cocktail party.INDIA TO ILLINOISHalf a world away, a fuzzy telephone connection between India and Cambridge provides a glimpse into the life of one Harvard graduate...