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...start to steal business from its technology and outsourcing companies. "We still have five years' lead," says Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys, a Bangalore-based software giant. "If in five years we've done nothing, there will be an issue." Perhaps the country's biggest hope is the fighting spirit of its new generation of entrepreneurs, who are determined to succeed regardless of the obstacles. "When I'm making my projections for growth or preparing forecasts for investors, I never count on the system," says Dhruva Interactive's Rajesh Rao. "Imagine what it would be like if we could count...
...scarf, yarmulke or crucifix see these adornments as symbols of personal devotion to Islam, Judaism or Catholicism. But members of the French political and intellectual establishment regard them as deliberate challenges to the secular nature of the republic. Americans, meanwhile, think of skyscrapers as testaments to the can-do spirit of American capitalism. (The Empire State Building was erected during the Great Depression!) Islamic fundamentalists, as we learned two years ago, see skyscrapers as idolatrous emblems of a society that serves Mammon rather than...
...cheers. "Iraq's future, your future, has never been more full of hope. The tyrant is a prisoner." From the first moment the American video of Saddam in custody began rolling, Iraqi journalists stood and screamed. Some yelled, "Kill him! Kill Saddam." The people of Baghdad caught the spirit of hope and pain, firing bullets into the sky and throwing candy, lighting firecrackers in the street. "They got Saddam!" "The devil is gone." It was like a wedding day, or perhaps more a birthday. "We will be friends with the Americans because of this," said a delighted Syed Hassan...
Barker gives us a wounded and burdened world, where the spirit of violence is at large everywhere, from ground zero and Sarajevo to smaller-scale bloodlettings and betrayals in England. Though Peter figures just occasionally in the story, he will be its primary enigma, a troubled, potentially violent man who leads us to Barker's central quandaries: By what formula can evil be understood? By what means can we avoid being complicit in its schemes? The questions are teased out expertly. Her dialogue is as sharp and spare as ever. But Barker may be too anxious not to frame...
...declared, "Whether you like him or not, he's our President, and we're at war! Our enemies are probably plastering this picture all over their walls." A Missouri man compared the cover to "graffiti sprayed by an ignorant adolescent." But another Coloradan caught the cover's playful spirit: "When I first saw it, I thought it was Alfred E. Neuman on Mad magazine...