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...said, 'Well, there's rapping and there's singing. Sure, why not?' " After that, the academy's 12,000 voting members gave "I'm on a Boat" the nomination. Freimuth agrees with Samberg about the T-Pain bump, saying the Auto-Tune master's participation "gave it that much more legitimacy" as a real song...
...News organizations particularly value high placement, since it translates into potential ad revenue. But Examiner.com, though rated by Nielsen as the fastest-growing Internet news site in the U.S. in August, does little actual journalism. It is not a news organization so much as a network of more than 24,000 individuals throughout North America, known as Examiners, each of whom cover a particular geographic or subject area. With that many correspondents, no beat goes uncovered; along with Examiners for world news there are those for fanboys, auto-brokers, celebrity cars, drinking games and doll-collecting, to name...
...Indian foreign policy establishment may welcome the new and much more prominent role that India is playing in Washington, but it will always look for assurances that it hasn't sacrificed its strategic independence. India's top foreign-service officers and politicians are still steeped in Jawaharlal Nehru's vision of a nonaligned India, a belief that cuts across party lines. So every step closer to the U.S.'s embrace is likely to be followed with at least a symbolic show of keeping its distance. Witness Singh's ceremonial review of a fur-hatted Russian honor guard less than...
...true test of India's new strategic importance is still to come. The Indian Defense Ministry has announced a massive modernization program estimated to cost as much as $100 billion over the next decade. Russia has long been India's biggest defense supplier, but the civilian nuclear deals and safeguards agreement that India has signed with several countries opens the doors for U.S. and European companies to win some of that massive spending...
...represent India's old and new allies. In the running are Russia's MiG35, Boeing's FA-18, Lockheed's F-16 and fighter jets from EADS, Dassault and Saab. This is the biggest single tender ever floated by the Indian military, and the decision will be influenced as much by geopolitics as by technical superiority. "Strategic weapons are not only about technology," says Deba Ranjan Mohanty, a defense expert at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. "It's also about building relationships with the country." Those in the running will have about two years to demonstrate how willing...