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...Last month, the country's attention was drawn to a case in which an Infosys software engineer killed his wife and himself because he suspected her of infidelity. A NIMHANS study shows that Bangalore has a suicide rate nearly three times the national average - 30 suicides per 100,000 people, as against 10.5 for the rest of India. Although the IT industry is not the only one facing this crisis, it is the most visibly affected. Acknowledging the problem, many leading IT companies, such as Infosys and Cisco, are offering in-house counseling services for employees...
...moment when Sweeney slits the first of many throats, and even then he retains a large share of his psychotic appeal. And Sweeney, after all, has his reasons. He’s after the lecherous Judge Turpin (Jonathan M. Roberts ’09), who, Sweeney learns, raped his wife Lucy and then adopted his young daughter Johanna (Christine K. L. Bendorf ’10). This, of course, is only the beginning of the show’s crazed perverseness. When Sweeney returns to London after spending 15 years in exile on a trumped-up charge, the former barber...
...surprising that when Barack Obama's campaign bus rolled up Sunday to the leafy corner of Superior and Bank streets, people came pouring out of their neat bungalows to meet him and his wife and his daughters. Walking up and down the street, Obama talked with Jody Coleman, a 33-year-old, about the cost of gasoline that has Coleman spending $65 a week to fill up the tank of his truck each for the commute to his job at a shelving factory 18 miles away. Fourth-grade teacher Mary Rasp, a fifth-generation resident of Elkhart, had been strolling...
...being actually alive. And spending any part of my remaining 52% on these repetitive thuggy tasks is starting to feel (is it possible?) like waste of time. Why should busywork be more compelling when demanded by a grotesque dramatis personae of human scum than when demanded by, say, my wife...
...imprisoned downstairs in the cellar for years of incestuous abuse, fathering seven children. One of the babies died in infancy and Josef Fritzl told the police that he disposed of the body by throwing it into the furnace he used to heat his house. For years, Josef and his wife Rosemarie told friends and neighbors they adopted the three "upstairs" children after Elisabeth left them as infants on their doorstep...