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...completing the task, Farooqi has given world literature a gift. That's not to say that it's without flaws. The faithful rendition occasionally gets a bit confusing - mostly due to its whirlwind of countless characters and lightning-quick changes of scene. But it does succeed in offering, in Farooqi's words, "a bridge between [Adventures] and the modern world." Non-Urdu-speaking readers can at last appreciate an epic "on par with anything in the Western canon." And, with luck, the classical pantheon populated by indomitable Achilles, cunning Odysseus and righteous King Arthur will now be joined...
Argentina has danced the most difficult tango. Kirchner--whose wife Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was elected to succeed him as President last month--took populist measures to keep the country of 40 million governable. He renationalized some utilities and set export limits on essential goods like meat to moderate prices. But rather than blow a windfall from commodity exports--prices for Argentine products like soybeans have hit all-time highs in recent years--Argentina replenished its foreign reserves (a record $44 billion today), pared debt and built a strong fiscal surplus. "Overspending and overindebtedness caused the crisis," says...
...successful collaborative effort. "In rowing, the only way to go fast is to cooperate fully" with the others, he says. That's hard when fellow rowers are also rivals for a handful of seats on the boat. The same dilemma occurs in business. Co-workers have to cooperate to succeed while competing with one another for promotions, resources and the attention of superiors. To ease the tension, the Cambridge rowers relied on humor, typically crude and black. When that failed, De Rond acted as a mediator. "Part of the trick," he relates, "is simply getting people to talk...
...products now transported by large trucks were shifted to the global rail system, an efficiency savings of three- to tenfold could be realized. If those goods could be shipped over water rather than rail, even greater efficiencies would be realized. While such changes will take time, they have to succeed...
...Malaysia alone, is lobbying with the U.S. Trade Representative for tough action against the country. "More investment in Malaysia is greatly dependent on the rate of piracy coming down," says Roland Chan, an executive of the Business Software Alliance, a large industry group. "Even if we don't succeed, it will not be for lack of trying," says Pahamin...