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HARI RAM SON, MOHAND CHAND & SONS, GOVIND GEMS, NP JAIN, RM BUMB read the signs on the shop stalls. Pitliya Jewellers has a table with a plastic washbasin filled with pearls. Jain families?members of an ascetic religious group that observes strict dietary rules?run the businesses; Muslims are the expert craftsmen. Later I notice a poster of Mecca in a workshop where four men facet lemon quartz in a weird green glow. Gauri Shankar Dangayach, production manager of one of Gem Palace's cutting units, leads De Taillac down several side streets with open gutters and into...
...true Renaissance man," said HCS President David J. Mitby '01. "This is the kind of guy who understands the need for students to save money on textbooks, organizes its publicity campaign and, as a bonus, can tell all of us CS-folks that the search is an NP-complete problem that was solved with special optimization...
...Party leaders were shocked, nonetheless, since De Klerk remained the only NP leader with any significant support in the black population. Nelson Mandela was barely gracious in his praise of the man he had come to increasingly distrust in recent years ? particularly after De Klerk withdrew his party from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission probing the crimes of the apartheid era. Mandela's salute to his predecessor was barbed: "Whatever mistakes he may have made, and it is possible that he has made very fundamental mistakes as many of us have done, I hope South Africa will not forget...
...peppering its student transcripts with As and Bs (93% of all grades awarded) and letting scholars bail out of uncongenial courses up to the very day of final exams with no questions asked. But last week the school turned its back on slacker-friendly grading and reinstated a failing NP (Not Passed) grade for 1995-96. How do other schools measure...