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...from which he emerged. Three-quarters of the musicians - aged 12 to 26 - live below the poverty line. He has been their music director since he was 17. When the relationship works, the orchestra feels for its conductor an uncomplicated love, akin to a child's love for a parent, that is the result of endless hours spent scrutinizing and absorbing every nuance of his body, face and soul. It is clear that Dudamel has this unusual power of contact with the orchestra. As the strings finally attack with a ferocity that matches Dudamel's convulsions on the podium...
...bigmouth radio man Don Imus to a war on bad-mouth gangsta rap, the instinct among older music fans was to roll their eyes and yawn. Ten years ago, another activist, C. Delores Tucker, launched a very similar campaign to clean up rap music. She focused on Time Warner (parent of TIME), whose subsidiary Interscope was home to hard-core rappers Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. In 1995 Tucker succeeded in forcing Time Warner to dump Interscope...
...Carmakers aren't just targeting India. Tata Motors has plans to export its econobox to Southeast Asia and Africa as well. Ratan Tata, the chairman of Tata Motors' parent company, Tata Group, believes they can eventually sell as many as a million cheap cars a year worldwide. That may be a realistic assessment. Globally, up to 3.7 million of such vehicles could be sold annually within the next few years, mostly in fast-growing markets like Brazil, China, India and Russia, says Abdul Majeed, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Chennai (formerly Madras). "It's all about affordability and fuel efficiency...
...dolts and cads" because they must demonstrate aggression and stoicism to be considered "man enough"? We should concentrate on breaking down such stereotypes and the belief in inherently male hardheadedness. Let us raise children and promote the positive attributes regardless of gender: intelligence, strength, sensitivity, humility and compassion. Brendan Parent, Los Angeles...
...seen more investment and new projects in the past 18 months than we'd seen in the past decade," he says. On the local level, this might be the most meaningful effect of the Benelli-Qianjiang model: the hundred or so Italian employees at the plant see the Chinese parent as the savior, not the usurper, of their jobs. "We would have closed down without them. They were the only ones with a serious plan," says Stefano Michelotti, a Benelli engineer. "We have to begin to think globally - Italian companies have had a tendency to fossilize...