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Enter Nandan Nilekani, a co-founder of the global IT giant Infosys. Through his focus on global entrepreneurship (his globalization-friendly compadre Thomas Friedman of the New York Times credits Nilekani for inspiring his book The World is Flat and writes "Seattle has Bill ... Bangalore has Nandan"), Nilekani possesses a bird's-eye view of India's strengths and weaknesses. Though inclined to see information technology as a panacea for India's social ills (he admits he fears being deemed "the computer boy"), Nilekani is quick to caution that safeguarding India's growth requires far more than economic prowess. (Read...
...fresh idea comes from Eric Dinallo, the New York state insurance superintendent, who in a March 3 Wall Street Journal op-ed suggested that insurance commissioners mediate the ratings process, since insurers are among the largest buyers of rated bonds. Regulators would collect a fee from insurance outfits and then use the money to buy ratings for everyone to use. If the ratings proved too rosy over time - or inaccurate in another way - regulators would switch to a different ratings company...
...piece of art’s original integrity must be confronted. At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston this is the balance that is currently being navigated. Acclaimed architect Renzo Piano—designer of the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York and the renovation of the Fogg Museum—recently received approval to commence expansion of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.The renovation proposal had posed a unique challenge for the Museum. Isabella Stewart Gardner, who established the Museum in 1903, stipulated that the Museum must remain in the condition...
...December of 2008, three Iraqi antiquities were recovered in Peru. They haven't been returned to the government yet, but they have been recovered. That fact that they were discovered in Peru highlights a disturbing new development. Recovery was much easier when the markets were limited to New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. Which is what they've been for the last several decades...
...what we're seeing now in the last couple of years [are new markets in] Dubai, Bahrain, Lebanon, Peru. This is a challenge for the international law enforcement community. We had a comfort zone when we knew it was going to New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. But now that those markets have expanded, it's a problem...