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...Penny, who joined the board in 2002 and became managing director in 2006, the group sold off its entire diamond stock and now sells only diamonds it mines itself (40% of global output). Gone too is the secrecy: De Beers now has a small army of public relations experts keen to produce executives for journalists and is even opening its own retail outlets on some of the world's more well-to-do main streets...
...gesture to Ahmadinejad demonstrates that even at the expense of upsetting the U.S., India is keen to mend relations with Iran that were damaged when New Delhi voted with Washington at the IAEA in 2005. "There is an increasing realization in India that India's interests in the region are tied with Iran's," says Prof A.K. Pasha, a Middle East expert at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. "Iran is the only country that can give credible help to Indian efforts to rebuild Afghanistan. And India must ensure that Iran remains on India's side and does not side...
When the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub opened last spring, it included an unmarked tap among the more recognizable beer names. Patrons had to know to ask for the honey lager, which had been brewed by several enterprising undergraduates with a keen interest in beer.This limited edition beer was only the latest step by Philip “Beamer” R. Eisele ’08, one of the keg’s two undergraduate brewers, on his path to opening his own brewery.Eisele’s life, both in and out of the classroom...
...embarrassment of riches is a cornerstone of Harvard culture; we don’t wear insignia clothing, we expertly understate our own talents and accomplishments, sometimes to excess, and we’re only ever keen to admit that we go to Harvard—“drop the H-bomb,” that is—when we’re trying to pick someone up at a bar. (It works. Sometimes.) Of course, we’re deeply (but secretly) pleased every time the Harvard admissions rate loses a point or two—we?...
...keep others long after they’ve fizzled. The difference between what you see and what you don’t is often as much about personal politics as it is about those nebulous Nielsen numbers. Yet, whatever the actual reason for cancellation may be, networks are always keen to blame viewers’ fickle tastes for their shows’ failings—never minding that they openly scorned the viewers in the first place. It’s probably the excuse they offered to the “Jezebel James” cast and crew before they...