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Senior Tim Galebach took a pre-holiday trip to Indiana yesterday, travelling to the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center to compete in his first NCAA tournament, which was held on the LaVern Gibson Championship Course. Galebach, competing in the 10k, completed the course in 34:17:8, for a 227th-place finish out of 250 competitors. The winner, Brigham Young’s Josh Rohatinksy, posted a time of 30:44.9. In team competition, Colorado scored a runaway victory, capturing the team trophy with a total of 94 points. Wisconsin finished in second, totalling 142 points, with Iona coming...
...Europe. America's high-tech sector in particular has an unusual concentration of Indian workers. Some 13% of all private, venture-backed start-up companies in the U.S. are founded by Indian immigrants, according to a study released this month by the National Venture Capital Association. Many of Silicon Valley's high-tech leaders are of Indian origin, among them Prabhakar Raghavan, 45, head of Yahoo!'s research division. After finishing college in India, Raghavan migrated to the U.S. and earned a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining IBM. "Indians are looked upon...
...diaspora has spread beyond Silicon Valley. Indian-born executives have in recent years taken the reins at some of the world's biggest companies. Arun Sarin, a native of Madhya Pradesh in central India, is CEO of Britain's Vodafone. Three months ago, Indra Nooyi was named CEO of PepsiCo after serving five years as the U.S. beverage giant's CFO. Indians have credibility as managers, says Hemant Luthra, head of the Systems & Automotive Technologies division at Indian car-and-tractor manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra. This was not always so. Luthra remembers visiting Hong Kong in 1991 when India's government...
...More important, the Mexican business culture does not carry much appetite for risk in its DNA or an appreciation for failure. As a result, at least for the time being, a government-supported business incubator for its most promising start-ups has also migrated across the border--to Silicon Valley...
...victory was not total. In Kentucky and Virginia, both red state redoubts, incumbent Republicans held off tough challenges. But a large geographical shift of voter sentiment toward the Democrats in the Northeast and Ohio Valley was enough to push Democrats over the top . And two key wins in Arizona spelled trouble for the G.O.P. in the southwest and California...