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...never underestimate the power of a woman. Teresa Heinz Kerry's understanding of many world problems, through her background and her fluency in five languages, would add a dimension to a Kerry Administration that is sadly lacking in George W. Bush's military-industrial complex. Trish Hooper Portola Valley...
...systems for computers, could not survive without outsourcing. By lowering his development costs, the 18 engineers who work for him in India for as little as one-fourth the salary of their American counterparts allow him to spend money on 13 senior managers, engineers and marketing people in Silicon Valley. If he doesn't outsource, in fact, the venture capitalists who fund start-ups like his won't give him a nickel. Sharma's Indian-American team, tethered by a broadband connection, gets his product in front of customers faster and cheaper. "As a business, you have to stay competitive...
From there, multinational companies began moving up the food chain. Silicon Valley, which for years had been importing highly educated Indian code writers--driving up wage and real estate costs--discovered it was a lot cheaper to export the work to the same highly educated folks over there. So did Wall Street, which employs an army of accountants, analysts and bankers to pore over documents, do deal analysis and maintain databases. The potential list gets longer: medical technicians to read your X rays, accountants to prepare your taxes, even business journalists to interpret companies' financial statements...
Monique E. Valley ’06 and Minnie S. Choi ’06 were so excited about the festivities surrounding Sex and the City that they decided to dress up as their favorite characters and reenact the show's heart-rending finale. They searched everywhere for the charming combination of sexual prowess and genuine warmth that the hunky males in SATC embody—but sadly, they couldn't find it anywhere at Harvard. The two decided to console themselves with a bottle of gin and the entire third season on DVD. Then they...
...takes a master puppeteer to put this kind of thing across, and Christensen gives a virtuoso performance, tossing off perfect sentences seemingly at random, delivering them with a sneer that makes them more delicious. Surveying a windblown Sunday morning, Hugo writes, "The Hudson Valley quivers in this Sabbath-morning light; the sky is a blinding bowl of leaves and birds." Dr. Lecter couldn't have said it better...