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...regiments of George V's loyal troops from all quarters of the Empire, as was done for Queen Victoria's fabulous Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Last week the Cabinet too late regretted such parsimony. Frantic efforts were afoot to scour London for resident Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, Indian and other Empire ex-soldiers who might be able to get their War-time uniforms spiffed up and join some portion of the Royal Jubilee...
THOMAS MENINO, mayor of Boston, to a group of Native Americans in a ceremony at which he formally requested repeal of the 1675 Indian Imprisonment Act, which authorized the arrest of any Indian found within the city limits of Boston...
...exports cheaper than Bangladesh's. But even if its currency rose against the dollar, China would still have tremendous advantages, as shown by data compiled in an International Monetary Fund working paper. The average Chinese garment-industry worker was paid $1,600 in 2001, more than double his Indian counterpart's wage and four times the money earned by the Bangladeshi. Despite the higher pay, the study found, the Chinese worker's productivity was significantly higher, adding $5,000 a year in value to the garments he processed, compared with $2,600 for his Indian equivalent...
...seen his American Dream come true. He arrived in the U.S. from India as an M.B.A. student in 1980, worked hard, married, started a family and rose to a top job at GE, having been recruited by Jack Welch himself. Then, in 1999, Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, an Indian conglomerate, called him back to India. He asked Paul, a former water-polo captain, to take over his software unit, Wipro Technologies. "He said, 'You can build another skyscraper in New York,'" Paul says, "'or you can build a completely new thing in India.'" Paul took the challenge. He transformed...
...experiences have shown that this intuitive and seductive method can also be very successful. In my first painting class, my teacher employed this method, asking me to loosen my grip on the brush so that the medium could help to clarify my ideas. As the son of first generation Indian immigrants unsure of their place in American culture, art-making in this liberated manner provided me with powerful tools for self-discovery. I made experimental videos on interracial adoption, compared the Mogul miniature tradition with Rothko and was compelled to carry my insights abroad to spend a summer in India...