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...suggested making steel for the colonial railway system, a British administrator dismissed the idea with barely concealed contempt. Earlier this year, Tata paid almost $14 billion to buy Corus, British Steel's successor. The moral of that story is not lost on India's corporate captains. They say that Western companies had better get used to the idea of Indians taking over...
...jumping into trenches in the culture wars." It is an addition to the growing field of brain scan trials, and Harris thinks it may be the first to detail how the brain processes belief. At first read, it seems less dangerous to Christianity than to another cherished pillar of Western thought - that "objective" beliefs like "2 + 2 = 4" and "subjective" beliefs like "torture is bad" belong to entirely separate categories of thought...
...Growing up in Tallahassee, Fla., Baek only ever heard hip-hop and Western music. He first took a serious interest in Asian pop music during high school...
...says.With this production, Malik is trying to present to American audiences an important play from Arabic literature that is practically unknown outside of the Middle East.“I translated this play from Arabic hoping that it would serve to break down the wall that divides Eastern and Western literature,” he says.“The Trojan War Will Not Take Place”While “Shahrazad” follows what happens right after a well-known story, “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place,” which will...
...screen. Yet despite the narrative’s imaginativeness and unconventionality, what makes it compelling is its believability, a result of the film’s rich character development. Amir’s father (Homayoun Ershadi), a wealthy Pashtun businessman who abhors everything Russian and loves Western cars, embodies the “old days” in Afghanistan, before civil, cold, and anti-terrorism wars lacerated the fabric of Afghan society. But when they flee to San Francisco, Amir and his father become just another pair of immigrants trying to assimilate into an alien culture in a vain attempt...