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...glance at the travel itinerary of Natarajan Chandrasekaran will tell you just how dramatically the postrecession economy is changing. Since October, when he became CEO of Indian IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Chandrasekaran has retraced the business trips his predecessors have been making for years to New York City and London, the home cities of big banks and other companies that have traditionally outsourced computer programming and other work to Indian firms. But jaunts to the industrialized world may no longer be sufficient to keep his Mumbai-based firm growing at top speed. So Chandrasekaran is also venturing...
...volume commemorates a recent exhibition of the same name at the Asia Society in New York City, and includes the work of 15 artists born from 1941 to 1981 - years when the democratic ideals of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first leader, slowly warped into Islamic nationalism and, later, iron rule by military dictators backed by foreign governments. But Pakistani art also began to mature during this period. Galleries and journals were established, and artists like Chughtai and Sadequain flavored their international modernism with local flair. See the top 10 nonfiction books...
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When Percy went to join the civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala., he took along Rangel, Dinkins and Basil Paterson, the father of New York's current governor. One day, after hearing Malcolm X speak in Harlem, Percy went to his office and said, "Malcolm, you need a lawyer." Percy represented him until his 1965 assassination...
...knocked down rumors that he was considering a presidential run, and no wonder. Running the network, he has more influence on conservatism than John Boehner or Michael Steele does. Besides, talk is cheap, but politics is expensive. One of America's most successful media figures turned politician is New York City's Michael Bloomberg--a mogul rather than a screen personality--and he was barely able to buy a third term as mayor...