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...number of Indians, led by prominent Bollywood figures, have condemned the movie for depicting India as a poor, dirty, lawless, and backward nation. Amitabh Bachchan, perhaps Bollywood’s most successful living actor, said that the movie “causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots” because of its unwarranted portrayal of India as a “Third World dirty underbelly developing nation...
...tone, with rookie Noam Mills and senior Maria Larsson posting undefeated afternoons. But no one was more exciting to watch than freshman Caroline Vloka. The heart of the sabre team, the rookie lost only one bout—to Rebecca Ward of Duke, the number one ranked fencer in the world, who won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics. Vloka had been up 4-2 in the bout before succumbing to a questionable final touch to lose 5-4. The men got quite a bit of help from their ever-steady walk-ons against the Maccabees, including sophomores...
...late November, the government agreed in a deal struck over a weekend, to guarantee 90% of the losses on a pool of $300 billion in loans held by Citigroup. The government insurance was supposed to put the bank back on solid footing. At the time, a number of analysts said Citigroup needed as much as $300 billion in new capital to survive. The government thought insuring the loans, rather than the more costly and politically difficult path of just handing Citigroup money directly, would be enough to stabilize the bank. (Read "Why Your Bank Is Broke...
...hasn't. Instead, the plan seems to have done little to slow fears that Citigroup would have to be broken up or shut down completely. Indeed, the bank has since announced plans to sell off a number of units, including its brokerage division. On the Friday before the insurance plan was struck, Citigroup's stock, a key measure of investors' faith in the institution, stood at $3.77. This past Friday Citigroup's stock finished...
...Small World After All. From 2004 to 2007, world travel grew an average of 7% a year, but that ain't gonna be true this year. The U.N. World Tourism Organization predicts the number of tourists, which reached about 924 million last year, might decline by up to 2 percent in 2009, with Europe and the Americas hit the hardest. At least the beaches in Bora Bora will be less crowded...