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...wife and I, natives of Bangladesh, worked at engineering and managerial jobs in California's Silicon Valley for more than 20 years before deciding to return home in 2005. A key factor that helped us decide was the growth of the economy. TIME's cover story validated our thinking. Your story, however, placed too little emphasis on entrepreneurs and development visionaries and too much emphasis on the politicians. Progress in Bangladesh has come because of the efforts of the former and despite the petty bickering of the latter. Ihtisham Kabir Dhaka...
...still students in the truest Harvard sense, folded hands in laps and faced forward, listening attentively to the introduction of the wines. The group would taste six different wines that night—spanning such geographic expanses as the wine fields of Northern Italy’s Adige River Valley to the foothills of Cerro Aconcagua in Western Argentina—and all ringing up for at most $15 a bottle.BOTTLES AND BOOT CAMPIn Vino Veritas was born five years ago, the brainchild of then-HLS-student Crystal Silva, according to Heather J. Ford, co-president of the organization...
...billion dollars it’s not, but Facebook.com has snagged $25 million in venture capital investments from three Silicon Valley firms...
...that has taken about 13,000 lives, the Maoists now control large areas of the nation, where they run a parallel state, collecting taxes, building roads and enforcing their rule with brutality. Upon striking a deal with Nepal's political parties, the Maoists promised not to attack the Kathmandu valley during the protests, although their attacks continued elsewhere - they have killed more than half a dozen policemen and soldiers since the protests began. Most observers believe that the Maoists also played a huge, although mostly hidden, role in making the protests a success, by sending their cadres out onto...
...take the initiative and frees individuals to get on with their lives unhindered by intrusive or ineffective government. Certain stretches of the 1990s felt like that, when the Clinton White House was distracted by its personal and legal troubles and all the energy and enterprise was coming from Silicon Valley and smart city mayors and the private sector...