Word: ravi
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...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...
...Boesch from Kirkland House, Dorothy A. Fortenberry, Jonathan A. Kelner and Esteban A. Real from Leverett House, Paven Malhotra from Lowell House, Emily Buck from Mather House, Michael Gerber, Jonathan M. Gribetz, Naamit M. Kurshan and Travis J. Schedler from Pforzheimer House, Stephen E. Sachs from Quincy House, and Ravi V. Shah and Ariel H. Simon from Winthrop House. Baer and Sachs are Crimson executives, and McKean is a Crimson editor...
...Ravi Desai admits he's a lousy poet. But he's pretty good at spinning tales. The 31-year-old Harvard graduate talks like the Robin Hood of Silicon Valley, promising to shower info-tech lucre on cash-strapped creative-writing programs across the land. "We need to support the soul as well as the mind," he croons from a two-man consulting firm in Menlo Park, Calif. What Desai actually delivers, however, is a parable about the perils of falling for a dotcom dreamer...
...other end of the spectrum stands Bezos' bete noir, Ravi Suria, a debt analyst at Lehman Bros. in New York City. Suria shot to fame in June with a report that blew the stock to pieces. For the first time, a Wall Street institution proclaimed that Amazon would eventually run out of cash "unless it manages to pull another financing rabbit out of its rather magical hat." The day of reckoning will come in the first quarter of next year, when sales are slower and Amazon goes cap in hand for more cash, as it has in the past...
...second-time lucky for Jain, who trained to be an engineer at Columbia University. In 1995, Ravi Database, the software-services company he founded in 1992, went broke. Chastened, Jain embarked on a soul-searching sabbatical in the U.S. What he found was inspiration. Jain noticed that thousands of Indian expatriates had little access to news from home. He figured the Internet was the ideal delivery system...