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...India has cheated a bit by breaking the October issue into five volumes. "Our readers would find it unwieldy to hold a fat magazine in their hands sitting up in bed," explains Sekhri. Inside the magazines, which cost $2.20 and come bundled together in a plastic sleeve, is the usual Cosmo fare - "7 Sex Styles Cosmo Girls Must Try"; "The New Anatomy of Infidelity"; "Accessory Alert!" - as well as 500 pages of advertising, equivalent to about three months worth of ads in a normal-thickness Cosmo >. "There's a real boom in terms of newer products coming into India," says...
...scene straight out of a Hong Kong gangster flick. On a November morning in 2002, local property tycoon Harry (Cigar) Lam was enjoying breakfast in his usual spot at Luk Yu Tea House, a Hong Kong institution famed for its tasty dim sum and indifferent service. At about 9 a.m., a nearby diner paid for his meal, walked up to Lam's table and killed him with a gunshot to the head...
Such is one sign of a successful university: its institutional inertia has developed so completely that even its leader is utterly incapable of stopping its usual routine. If the Blizzard of 1978 is any indication, Harvard can essentially operate without any overarching guidance or direction. But merely allowing a university to trudge forward under its own power endangers the university’s long-term aims; mere repetition of the daily slog does not constitute a march forward...
...gruesome killing of four contractors, he pressured the Marines - over their objections - to attack the town. Then he compounded the mistake, in the view of these officers, when, faced with complaints from the Iraqis and Arab media about high civilian casualties, he abruptly halted the attack, violating the usual practice of allowing commanders on the ground to control the tactical fight. Many analysts see it as a turning point that allowed the insurgency to expand and become more dangerous...
Lately, I’ve found myself having to explain that I don’t work for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)—the public corporation that runs Greater Boston’s T—far more often than usual. I don’t imagine that it’s my appearance that leads so many Bostonians to suspect this employment. But as someone in favor of the MBTA’s recently announced fare hikes, I might as well be wearing a T patch on the side of my button-down blue shirt...