COLUMNS
OFFHAND
US gets deeper into the Iraqi mire
It is said that a pathological gambler does not know when to stop. With every disaster, he keeps on raising the stakes with reckless abandon in the fond hope that somehow the tide can be reversed in his favour. ...
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ON THE MOVE
Recruitment of foreign seafarers runs into rough weather
Though there is a shortage of Indian officers for the country's flag carriers, the idea of recruiting foreign officers has evoked a sharp response.
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
Action hinges on Tata Steel-Corus deal, RBI meet
FIIs remain neutral; MFs turn sellers
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
Investors can dabble with variety of schemes
A first-time visitor casually scanning the country's asset management landscape may well be amazed by the sheer variety of funds that have come into being in recent times. Tell him about the imminent arrival of so many others, and you may indeed ...
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CHAT
Their noise be our instruction
Khan was reading up about ethanol economics. Sridevi was downloading one more movie from YouTube. Dakshinamoorthy was shopping at a `Fresh' outlet for the limited fare on offer... Till Jogin alerted them all about the market chat. Jump ...
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EUROSCAPE
Of global climate change and power shift
Davos without snow would be like the Sahara without sun. When I drove up last weekend to the ski resort in the Swiss alps, this is what I saw. It finally snowed that night, blanketing the streets and surrounding mountains, and making the place ...
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JOTTINGS
Listening to Rupert Sheldrake
How would you react if I told you that I saw a film last week featuring a parrot with a vocabulary of 1,200 English words, and that it could sense a picture that its owner, a young woman, was looking at in a ...
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PEOPLE WISE
Can successful executives raise high performing children?
Corporate India's executives wonder if they will succeed in raising their children to be as high performing as them and display it in their academic and career pursuits. Some even worry if their success and affluence has blunted their children's abil ity to become high performers. It is worth examining if there is any truth in this apprehension and anxiety. Many young children demonstrate an outstanding sense of responsibility. I think the ingredients are already there and only need to be k indled by parents.
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