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...China is strong because we are on our knees," read a big red banner held aloft by half a dozen youngsters with Tibetan flags painted on their faces, gathered at Dharamsala's central Tsulagkhang Temple early Sunday. As hundreds of Tibetans and their supporters streamed in, trampling over Chinese flags strewn along the way, more banners appeared: "This is the moment - now or never"; "Shall we be slave or be free?" Shouts of "Pogyalo" - Free Tibet! - rose up to express solidarity with a long-planned "Dharamsala to Lhasa" march that started on March 10, as hundreds of yellow and brown...
...group of marchers had been detained for 14 days by Indian authorities. Nearly 700 people had descended on the town by evening. Organizers of the original march feared that passions could get out of hand and had to turn the protestors away, telling them to remain non-violent. On Sunday, hundreds more people gathered at Tsulagkhang Temple. More marches are planned for the coming days...
...world’s fastest growing markets will take center stage this Sunday as Harvard Business School hosts its fifth annual India Conference. The conference, hosted by the South Asian Business Association at HBS, will feature 10 panel discussions with top Indian business leaders, who will discuss India’s global presence in fields like healthcare, private equity, media and entertainment, and energy. The two keynote speakers for the conference—whose sponsors include the Tata Group and Goldman Sachs—will be Vivek Paul, a partner at private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, and Alan Rosling...
Watching “The Wire” wasn’t always easy, but it was always rewarding. Baltimore, as one character describes it, is “a dark corner of the American experiment.” This Sunday, that experiment ended. But for some of you, and for the sake of the country we hold dear, I hope it’s only just beginning. —Columnist Allie T. Pape can be reached at pape@fas.harvard.edu...
Pity Dick Cheney, when Air Force Two lifts off on Sunday for the Middle East. Reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks looks to be the simpler part of his mission, compared with the task that awaits him in the Saudi capital of Riyadh - persuading the 13-country OPEC cartel to help bring down the soaring price of oil by boosting output. As cynics might say, good luck with that...