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...with the chance to earn quick bucks in India, players are already getting restless. Australian captain Ricky Ponting wants a window created in the calendar for the IPL, lest aging players make a calculated decision to retire early from their Test careers. Teammate Andrew Symonds, snared at auction by Hyderabad for $1.35 million over three years, has made it clear he'd rather play in the upcoming IPL tournament than tour an unstable Pakistan as part of his national squad. "Right now you'd have to be nervous if you're a cricket administrator," Symonds warned in his Brisbane newspaper...
...precedence over the domestic tournament. But how long before some players, particularly those nearing the end of their careers, decide they'd be better off switching to the IPL or some other similar circus that could spring up before long? Already, the Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds - snared by Hyderabad for $1.35 million over three years - has indicated he'd rather play in the upcoming IPL tournament than tour an unstable Pakistan as part of his national squad...
Noted anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis died at home last Sunday. The death of the former Henderson Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus came after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 to join the Harvard faculty. He was 78. Maybury-Lewis was a leader in the field of anthropology specializing in the study of indigenous people in the Americas. His work concentrated in Brazil and was recognized in 1997 with the Grand Cross of the Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil’s highest academic award. He received...
...regulators to see if it can legally get around the general ban on foreign universities' setting up shop in India. If successful, it would become the first American university to offer graduate degrees identical to those it awards to students in Atlanta. It hopes to open a campus in Hyderabad in 2009. "No school in America can afford to be U.S.-centric these days. We need our students to understand how things work in Asia," says Kellogg dean Dipak Jain...
...working for Motorola in Chicago, Varma, 27, felt a stint in grad school would help him move up into management. So last year he applied to a couple of U.S. schools and to the Indian School of Business (ISB), a six-year-old institution in the southern city of Hyderabad that has academic ties to Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the London Business School. He was thrilled when he got into ISB. "The more I looked, the more I realized it was on a par with U.S. schools," says...