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...largest-ever Indian acquisition of a foreign firm, and it will catapult Tata from the world's 56th largest steel producer to the fifth. "All credit goes to Ratan Tata," says Sanjay Bhandarkar, managing director of the N.M. Rothschild private bank in India. "He clearly has a vision and knows what he's doing...
...offer the tantalizing music of Pynchon's voice, with its shifts from comic shtick to heartbroken threnody, its mordant Faulkneresque interludes, its gusts of lyric melancholy blown in by way of F. Scott Fitzgerald, its ecstatic perorations from Jack Kerouac. And my toaster will never lay before me a vision of a world in which technology is stripping away all the ancient, vital magic while shepherding mankind to the brink of destruction. On the other hand, my toaster makes toast, and nothing quite so graspable ever pops out of this predictably bewitching, predictably bewildering book...
...more hopeful and satisfying life, and a more stable region could be ensured. The U.S. should show that it isn't interested in "owning" Iraq by eliminating most of its 14 bases there. That approach, however, would seem impossible under the current U.S. Administration. Fresh new faces and vision are needed for the world to see that we really want the best for the Iraqis. Debbie Metke Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
...familiarity with the UC and a track record of working with University Hall administrators. Because of the abundance of information available about candidates’ political pasts, UC treasurer Benjamin W. Milder ’08 says campaigns this year are likely to center around “competing visions and records rather than [candidates’] opinions on one particular issue.”AN EARLY SURPRISEConspicuously missing from the roster is Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, vice chair for undergraduate education for the Student Affairs Committee (SAC). Greenfield, who was widely considered to be a candidate...
...equally candid about her personal life. She treats the subjects of divorce, miscarriage, and her daughter’s mental illness with surprising openness. Her philosophizing can be formulaic—“My vision is a world in which every person is valued. No lives are discarded as statistics. No one is marginalized,” she writes—but she is unapologetic, and sometimes appealing...