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...called “On the Path of Madness: Representations of Majnun in Persian, Turkish, and Indian Painting” are more important in Islamic literature than their small number implies.This new exhibit is organized by Mary McWilliams, the Calderwood curator of Islamic and later Indian art, and Sunil Sharma, a senior lecturer at Boston University, and will be on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum until Feb. 10, 2008.Rather than relaying the famous tale of ill-fated lovers Layla and Majnun in its entirety, “On the Path of Madness” focuses exclusively on Majnun...
THREE: WALLED GARDENS The carriers continue to block access to their networks by mobile startups even as these innovators offer new ways to watch and share video, trade pictures, and use phones in new ways. "They control the industry but strangle innovation," says mobile industry consultant Chetan Sharma. They limit the things you can do with your phone. They want you to pay them for picture messaging, so they restrict independent providers of that type of service. They want you to buy ringtones from them, so they cut off growth and innovation in that mini-industry. They would prefer...
...Even Kesri Singh appears to realize that the key to prosperity lies outside his parched kingdom, making more frequent trips to Calcutta (now renamed Kolkata) to raise capital for his expanding operations. "He never used to go before," observes Arvind Sharma, one of Singh's former employees, now a rival hotelier in Mandawa. But how will the wealthy Marwaris of Kolkata treat the scion of their erstwhile liege? Will they remember the bad old days when their families clung to the walls of his castle, treated with scorn as grubby moneylenders? "No, no, we treat all maharajahs with great respect...
...free spenders may be looking for something else. China knows a thing or two about cheap clothing, and when its consumers buy foreign brands, they want what they can't find at home. "It's a fatal mistake to discount for the Chinese customer," says JPMorgan analyst Vineet Sharma. "Young people want clothes that aspire to luxury. H&M should concentrate on that mid-market, where there's still room to grow...
...most significant outcome might be to remind teachers and parents - even those math-minded scientists - that dyscalculia is a neurological condition, quite separate from not paying attention in class or just being a bit slow. "Dyscalculia is where dyslexia was 30, 40 or 50 years ago," says Mahesh Sharma, a professor of mathematics education at Cambridge College in Massachusetts. Indeed, even the definition is a bit fuzzy. Some researchers count disabilities in spatial perception or arithmetic operations as dyscalculia, while others restrict it to difficulty recognizing numbers normally. Cohen Kadosh's tests hold out the possibility that different math dysfunctions...