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Many observers believe privatizing the airports may solve many problems. But it is always a touchy subject in India. The Delhi and Mumbai airports were privatized last year in the face of strong protests from employees' unions and left-wing parties allied with the ruling Congress party. Like many other things in India, politics rears its head in running the airline industry. "Important policy decisions... are pending before the government," says Joseph Thachil, former editor of aviation magazine Skyflier, "but with elections due in 14 months, they will likely remain pending...
Turning to a slightly different subject, California Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), which mandates reducing Greenhouse gases, must have initially sent shockwaves through the business community. Do you feel you won businesses over? How? A lot of the business leaders were sitting there [with us] when we celebrated AB 32. And they were sitting there in front of the Capitol when we came up with the executive order with low carbon fuel standards, in January. The oil company executives were sitting there, the environmentalists were sitting there, car manufacturers were sitting there. The reason for this...
...roommate, Ryan C. Hackett '09, said that Harvard officials asked Wu to leave campus until further notice. Jay Ellison, assistant dean of Harvard College and secretary of the Administrative Board, declined to comment on whether Wu would be subject to disciplinary action...
...vastly less experienced than Clinton, makes Oprah's decision seem divisive, racist and against the best interests of the country as a whole. This next presidential vote cannot be about color or sex. It's got to be about qualifications. Her choice is an example of reverse racism, a subject white people feel too guilty to discuss. Susan Mather, SAN FRANCISCO...
...throughout World War II, told vivid stories of love, friendly nightspots and the difficulties of being gay in the military. The resulting 1990 book, Coming Out Under Fire, won Berube a MacArthur award, inspired a Peabody-winning documentary and is widely considered the definitive piece of scholarship on the subject. He was 61 and died of complications from stomach ulcers...