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When Ratan Tata, chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Group, spoke to TIME earlier this year, he urged his countrymen to dream big. India, he said, should "be bold. It must look at the future ... It must look big, and look out." Last week he showed just what he meant: Tata Steel, part of his sprawling $22 billion empire, made an $8 billion bid for the Anglo-Dutch steel manufacturer Corus. The deal, accepted by Corus' board last Friday, creates the world's fifth-largest steel company and is the largest Indian takeover of a foreign company ever...
...first year on the job, the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has overseen a rapid expansion of the agency and intensified cooperation with its overseas counterparts. He spoke with TIME's Rory Callinan about the role of intelligence in the war on terrorism, cooperation with Australia's largest neighbors, and the risk of homegrown terrorism in a country that has so far been spared an attack...
...taken heroin, had a liver transplant and fathered six children, two of them as a sperm donor. He recounts his colorful story in his new book, Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About It (Putnam), which will be published in November. TIME'S Andrea Sachs spoke with Crosby...
Kidder also spoke briefly on Friday night, introducing Farmer...
Kingsland was found dead March 21, according to The New York Sun. Acquaintances who spoke to the Sun described him as “an unending trove of historic facts of the Upper East Side” who was himself surrounded by an “air of delightful mystery.” The Sun said that “it was unclear where his primary residence was,” and that New York’s well-known Kingsland family did not believe he was related to them...