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...word, all is normal.Reading the Mumbai papers, however, one gets an entirely different impression. The press has filled in the gaps in the city’s understanding of its recent attacks with a narrative of imminent danger and Pakistani aggression. This coverage, tinged with bloodlust, is at fever pitch??and it is incessant.Announcing on the Times Now news channel that Pakistan was refusing to acknowledge captured terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, for example, a reporter stated with grave certainty that “in their heart of hearts” Pakistanis knew Kasab belonged to them. And despite...
...There are a few unreceptive locals—one man glares from behind his screened porch, another refuses even to listen to the canvassers’ pitch??but most are polite and pleasant. The majority aren’t home, so they “lit drop,” leaving behind brochures on the candidates...
More than 30 groups competed in the first annual i3 “Elevator Pitch?? competition, held this past Saturday at Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall. Nicholas J. Navarro ’10, MIT juniors Sean Liu and Cheuk Leung, and MIT management student Murali Govindaswamy won the first-place prize of $500 with their pitch of a new “wireless mesh technology” that would bring cheaper Internet access to the people of China. The technology that the team plans to establish in China was developed at MIT and has not yet been used...
...Saturday, competitors will go through a two-tier selection process. In the first round, participants will give a one-minute “elevator pitch?? to the judging panel and the audience, explaining their business ideas and why they think their ideas will work...
...allow biotech companies and alcohol in the city, you’ll have no more rodents,” Bercaw said at a council meeting in February. Rats may have an opponent in being the dominant public nuisance issue of the campaign: leaf blowers. “Their particular pitch??irregular and whiny—is particularly irritating,” said city resident Cynthia Kennedy Sam in a representative attack on leaf blowers. “They harm our lungs and cause cancer and premature death.” Though some candidates, like challenger Sam Seidel, have...