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...shorter versions: the 1855 rendering by the Urdu poet Ghalib Lakhnavi, and an 1871 text by the Urdu scholar Abdullah Bilgrami, who took Lakhnavi's edition and added various flourishes and refrains to restore its original bardic character. Even so, Farooqi's translation is almost a thousand pages in total. It was a Herculean labor. "When I looked at the first page," Farooqi confesses, "I thought 'What the hell is this?'" Translating the heavily Persian form of classical Urdu required seven years, which Farooqi spent shuttling between archives in South Asia and libraries the West, poring over manuscripts and microfilm...
...Swede. Yet its corporate culture remains firmly grounded in the Swiss tradition, favoring modesty and consensual change over American-style brashness. Joe Weller, 57, the head of Nestle USA, calls it a "global company with a Germanic personality." And Brabeck nurtures "the Nestle spirit," even co-writing a nine-page brochure that tries to explain it. "Nestle people do not show off" is one definition. Another: "Nestle is skeptical of short-term fads and self-appointed gurus...
Like other publications, this very page recently questioned the role and tactics of record companies in the digital music marketplace. The Crimson may be cavalier about the impact of theft on our colleagues in the music community. After having watched thousands of regular, working class employees laid off and no longer in the music profession, we are not.Whatever one might see as the future for record companies, the importance of their creative and business role to date cannot be denied. Record companies have invested enormous sums of money to find and develop talent, and to record and market music. They...
...this does us no good in the media. It is why you do not read about Australia in U.S. newspapers. Practically nothing in Australia is considered worth reporting. In all the 30 years I have lived in New York City, I doubt that I have seen as many front-page stories about my country in the New York Times as you'd get about Israel in a month. Why would you want to know about us? We don't rock your boat or export much you're interested in, except for our admirable wines, a steady supply of sports figures...
...little as $1 ? flickr The photo-scrapbook site helped popularize tagging as a way to organize information ? Blogger The popular bloggingsoftware service makes every would-be pundit a publisher ? Bloglines Lets users subscribe to various sites then receive updates from each one on a single page ? Technorati Its search and ranking functions reveal the topics that are burning up the blogosphere ? del.icio.us Allows users to share their Web-browser bookmarks, all organized by tags users provide ? digg The crowd as news editor: readers "digg" stories they like and "bury" ones they don't Jeff...