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...Numbers 1.2 million excited residents of New Delhi rode the capital's metro on its first day of operation. The result: chaos. It was designed to carry only 200,000 people daily...
...technology's growth. This year will go down as the worst in history for information technology, with sales falling 2.3% after averaging a 12% annual growth rate over the past 20 years. Data-mining companies have been among the hardest hit in recent years: MicroStrategy, based in McLean, Va., rode the near messianic predictions of founder and CEO Michael Saylor from a market capitalization of $1 billion to more than $20 billion and back again in less than 18 months...
...RESIGNED. CHRISTOPHER GENT, 54, cricket-loving chief executive of Britain's Vodafone Group who rode the telecom boom and transformed the small FTSE company into the world's leading mobile-phone operator; in London. Vodafone chairman Lord MacLaurin said Gent stepped down over media criticism of his $19.8 million payout last year, when Vodafone recorded a $21.6 billion loss and its share price fell by a third. Gent's successor is Arun Sarin, head of Vodafone's U.S. ventures, who takes over in July...
...help of a passerby pulled us out of immediate danger, but that still left the problem of the clutch handle. It was the second day of my weeklong motorcycle tour, and the broken part threatened to scuttle the whole trip. Or so I thought. My friend Julian, who rode back to find me, barely batted an eyelid. Within an hour, he had driven to the nearest town and returned with a new handle, which he installed in 10 minutes flat. "It wouldn't be a Minsk trip," he shrugged, "if you didn't have repairs...
Perhaps the administration should reconsider its assumptions. As early as 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning, students rode to Logan airport in shuttles provided by the Undergraduate Council. Many house dining halls closed before lunch on Wednesday, and only Dunster was open for Thanksgiving dinner. During the Thanksgiving weekend, shuttles to and from the Quad ran less frequently. Besides lectures being canceled and sections rescheduled, libraries were also closed. Clearly, those in more frequent contact with students realized that most would be off-campus for the weekend. It seems that only our administration out of touch with the personal priorities...