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...Gibson has re-released The Passion. A very powerful movie. It's basically the same movie, just six minutes shorter. What they did was take out the coffee and dessert at the Last Supper." --DAVID LETTERMAN
...investment world was always going to be easy for Navroz Udwadia, a second-year student at Harvard Business School and a former Rhodes scholar at Oxford. But what made him stand out was not just his brain?it was that he'd grown up in Bombay and had a passion for Indian equities. "Every hedge fund I interviewed with was fascinated by my Indian background," says Udwadia. Four of them offered him jobs. One didn't even wait for him to graduate?the fund's managers gave him $5 million to invest in Indian stocks in his spare time between...
...real risk to a peaceful coexistence between the U.S. and Asia's rising powers is not?at least, not yet?Washington's passion for democracy. It is that economic growth has not abolished old political grievances. Japan and China remain rivals, with the bitter memories of the last century corroding a growing commercial relationship. Beijing obsesses over the fact that Taiwan is not within its jurisdiction. India and China eye each other warily over the Himalayas. And when North Korea collapses?as some day it will?South Korea, Japan and China might yet all find themselves drawn into a contest...
...They rail against sex and violence in entertainment, yet--as a group, anyway--reward it and punish the alternatives. The most wholesome new network show of last fall was CBS's Clubhouse, a sweet drama about a teenage bat boy for a baseball team, executive-produced by Mel (The Passion of the Christ) Gibson. It was canceled by November. Desperate Housewives is still going strong...
Privilege may be a launchpad for Douthat’s career, but it lacks the intellectual passion he spends the book searching for—the authenticity and originality he expected at Harvard but never found...