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...university’s holdings, its fund managers immediately determined that the university did not have any direct holdings in Sudan-linked companies, but that they might indirectly hold shares of PetroChina, Sinopec, the Russian oil firm Tatneft, the Swiss power company ABB Ltd., and the state-owned Indian firm Bharat Heavy Electricals...
Princeton directed its fund managers to look into its investments in an Indian subsidiary tied to ABB, but eventually determined that the subsidiary had no part in ABB’s Sudan activities...
...somehow seems too late: like all the most ridiculous celebrity stories the Big B v. SRK brouhaha has taken on a life of its own. In a wonderful illustration of globalization's reach, even U.S. satirist Stephen Colbert has helped fuel the dispute by featuring Bachchan and Khan - "the Indian Robert Redford and Brad Pitt only crank up the handsome and rip the knob off" - in his television show's celebrity feuds segment. Khan, Colbert said way back in early January, had failed to turn up to Bachchan's New Year's Eve party. And so the cycle of silliness...
...rivalry hit the headlines again this year when Khan, dubbed "SRK" by his millions of fans, was named host of the Indian version of the quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire, a role Bachchan had held for two seasons until heart problems forced him to step down early last year. Or perhaps, as rumor has it, the show's producers balked at Bachchan's steep fee. Whatever the reason for the change of host, the question of whether Khan would be a better question-asker than Bachchan has taken on national importance in recent months with weekly newsmagazine...
...nonstarter in Europe. "There is such diversity among different minorities, with some greatly outperforming even the white majority, that to have laws that just benefit you because of the color of your skin is mad," says Mulgan. In Britain, the average salary for an Indian is almost double that of a Pakistani and, across Europe, the Chinese do better at work and at school than native whites. So an employer could fill its antidiscrimination quota and still do nothing to help minorities at the bottom of the ladder...