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...There is not a broker in Calcutta who will deny what was going on. Indeed, most passionately defend it. Changoiwala's brother, Kanta Prasad, gushes that the relationships forged by families who traded with one another in the gray market gave "touch and feeling" to Calcutta's bourse that was "absolutely unique." Mention unofficial finance to Mahajan, the former exchange vice president, and he gets so excited that his arms flail like the rotors of a distressed helicopter. "Nobody ever failed to pay up," he coos. "It served Calcutta for 100 years. It was a beautiful system. It was something...
...down in favor of a constitutional monarchy. But critics have assailed the new democratic values, saying they encourage people to do whatever feels right, regardless of the consequences: dump the Prime Minister, take a bribe, kiss your partner before marriage. Indeed, corruption scandals plague the current government of Girija Prasad Koirala. If the monarchy were still absolute, the critics griped, then the traditional values would prevail...
...Ravi prasad studies the small machine in his hands. Friends peer over his shoulder, while several young children scramble for a good view. The 16-year-old has been told that he is holding a computer. He looks skeptical. His school in Madavara, a dusty farming village outside Bangalore, has a computer: a big one, with a keyboard, a wide screen and all kinds of wires. This has none of that. Instead, it's the size of a datebook and has earphones and some kind of blunt writing utensil. "Why is it so small?" he asks. "This is a computer...
Players at the tournament competed in open divisions or divisions based on skill level as determined by a standardized score. In the under-1600 division, Tun-Kai "T-K" Yang '00 tied for first. In the under-1400 division, Vikram Prasad, a graduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, took home second place in his first tournament ever
...Sandip Prasad '98 still vividly remembers lumbering into University Health Services (UHS) at about 8:45 p.m., reeling with stomach pain, ready to be sick and hoping for some attention. Instead, he found a crowd of his peers who, strangely enough, shared the same problem...