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...dream. Dreams never come true,' my father would say. But I dreamt." (This is a paraphrase of Dhirubhai's maxim, "Only when you dream it can you do it," not to mention The Rocky Horror Show's "Don't dream it, be it.") We flash back to Gurukant's youth in a Gujurat village, then follow the mogul's progress, with some Bollywood embellishments: his marriage to Sujatha (Rai) - at first for her $25,000 dowry, then for love - and his fraternal devotion to a feisty crippled girl, Meenu (Vidya Balan), who will grow up to marry Shyam (Madhavan...
...Friday on kidnapping charges, Michael Devlin, 41, led a life that seemed limited to a three- or four-mile radius from the place he grew up, Webster Groves, an upscale suburb of St. Louis. "He was just a big, friendly marshmallow," said one neighbor who knew Devlin in his youth. When he finally moved out of his parents' home, where he lived in an apartment above the garage, he set up residence in an apartment complex in Kirkwood, about three miles away. For 25 years, he worked at Imo's, a pizza parlor even closer by. And to commit...
...knew his type, Hu has placed himself at the forefront of China's new assertiveness. Hu, 64, has never studied outside China and is steeped in the ways of the Communist Party. He became a party member as a university student in the early 1960s and headed the Communist Youth League in the poor western province of Gansu before becoming provincial party chief in Guizhou and later Tibet. Despite a public stiffness in front of foreigners, Hu has been a vigorous ambassador for China: the pattern was set in 2004, when Hu spent two weeks in South America--more time...
...foot in the door, and some that don’t have a relationship to Hillel,” said Simon. Talya J. Brettler ’08, an active member of the Hillel community, said the group will be travelling through different cities and staying at youth hostels. “Most of the people on the trip have been to Israel before,” said Brettler, who is an outgoing board member on Hillel’s Steering Committee. Danielle L. Charlap ’09, who was elected last week as the Hillel steering committee?...
Whatever appeal youth may hold, Early Career students will have a harder time cracking into areas that are thought to require more experience, like venture capital or private equity, says MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management and Practice Richard G. Hamermesh...