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Kidwai made her name at Morgan Stanley, which she joined in 1994 after a stint at ANZ Grindlay's Bank. At the time, Morgan's operations in India were relatively small. She engineered a joint venture with investment bank JM Financials, making the resulting firm one of the largest in that industry in India. She also aggressively pursued opportunities in technology, nabbing the accounts of Wipro and Infosys, among others, and brokered a joint venture between AT&T and two conglomerates, owned by the Birla and Tata families, to create a telecom company offering cellular service throughout India...
...VISTAS Out by the Estrella Mountains, guests can can catch glimpses of wild horses. Trail rides on tamer beasts are available A GAMBLE Pima and Maricopa tribal leaders hope the joint venture with Sheraton will bring money into their community without relying on slot machines?although a casino is just a short trip away INDULGENCE The 16,260-sq.-meter spa is called Aji, a name derived from a place the Pima considered a sanctuary during battle...
...remaining 90%, retailing just might be the sickest of the bunch. Large-scale stores are rare in Japan, so if you go shopping, chances are good that you'll find yourself in a joint like Yoko Nakamura's general store in Kamimoku, a hot springs resort hamlet of about 800 people, an hour and a half north of Tokyo by bullet train. Nakamura, the 73-year-old granddaughter-in-law of the store's founder, runs the place with two of her sons and their wives, selling beer and liquor, cigarettes, canned goods, toiletries and candy. Her store couldn...
...reached, with strikes of their own. Blair's government was unusually flat-footed in its p.r., sending out mixed messages through multiple spokesmen. First it appeared to bless a 16% raise, then insisted that any increase above 4% would have to come out of "modernization" savings - reforms like joint control centers for police, fire and ambulance; fire trucks with both full-time and part-time employees; and more flexibility in shift work. But that would mean job losses, so the firefighters were furious, questioning whether Blair was trying to "pull a Maggie" - prove Thatcher-like toughness to win votes. Blair...
...narrow details take the place of a broader imagination. The kind of learning we do here should encourage depth, creativity and leaps of faith—risk-taking, as someone once said, is free. The cure for risk-aversion may require slowing down, but more importantly, it requires a joint effort on the parts of professors and students alike to change the culture of how we learn, leaving more room to take risks without being penalized for them, to probe and engage deeply with questions we are exposed to, to see radiance in the daily habits of learning. Risk-aversion...