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Enter Bangalore's finishing schools. "We spoke to companies, educational institutes and students across three states while preparing our course curriculum, and they all said there was a huge need to develop personal leadership and interpersonal and communication skills among graduates," says Pallavi Jha, chair of Dale Carnegie Training's Indian partner, Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd. A large part of the coursework is overcoming cultural differences. "The handshake, if you are a woman, is tricky," says Neetika Verma, a Dale Carnegie instructor. "We tell our female students, 'If a man doesn't reach out to shake your hand, take the first...
...should be pretty obvious, then, that the U.S. doesn't have a strong-dollar policy. What's more, it almost certainly shouldn't have one. The huge trade deficits that the country has been running for the past decade seem like a pretty good indication that the dollar was overvalued in global currency markets and needed to come down...
...1970s and '80s, the Treasury Department was constantly buying or selling foreign currencies to push the dollar this way or that. Since 1995, when Rubin took office, Treasury has made only a couple of token moves and since 2000 hasn't intervened at all. World currency markets are so huge and active, the thinking goes, that trying to manipulate the dollar is largely futile...
Meyer, 34, is a huge success at selling books, but she's becoming something more. People dress up like her characters. They write their own stories about them and post their tales on the Internet. When she appears at a bookstore, 3,000 people go to meet her. There are Twilight-themed rock bands. Meyer has, like one of her vampires, turned into something rare and more than merely human: a literary phenomenon...
...undead in person. An observant Mormon, she doesn't drink alcohol and has never seen an R-rated movie. She's not perfect--although Mormons avoid caffeine on principle, she drinks the occasional cherry Diet Pepsi. "It's about keeping yourself free of addictions," she explains, sitting on a huge couch in her living room. "We have free will, which is a huge gift from God. If you tie that up with something like, I don't know, cocaine, then you don't really have a lot of freedom anymore...