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Richard Robbins dies at 71; film composer had 2 Oscar nods
Richard Robbins, the composer who created memorable scores for such films as "A Room With a View," "Howards End" and "The Remains of the Day" during a quarter-century collaboration with director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, has died. He was...
Tags: Jane Austen, Hugh Grant, Movies, Music, Vanessa Redgrave
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Two women arrested over Facebook gripe on Mumbai shutdown
A woman who complained about the Indian city of Mumbai shutting down for the funeral of divisive Hindu nationalist politician Balasaheb Thackeray was arrested for "hurting religious sentiments," local police told reporters amid public anger over the case....
Tags: Islam, Government, Television Industry, Police Arrests, Television Stations
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Indian-born adviser to Leo Burnett, colleagues navigates digital world
Tribune staff reporterOn a warm September day in Chicago, Rishad Tobaccowala counseled a roomful of Leo Burnett executives on how to sell high-tech gadgets -- told in terms of hot dogs. Tobaccowala, who has spent 30 years at Leo Burnett and affiliated agencies,...Tags: General Mills Incorporated, Publicis Groupe SA, The New York Times, Computer Networking and Internet, Chicago Tribune
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Attack on retired Indian general evokes '84 Golden Temple assault
World NowSikh India Attack: A painful chapter in India’s history was reopened this week when a retired general who oversaw the storming in 1984 of the Sikh’s most revered site was stabbed in London in an alleged “revenge attack” by... -
Israel won't negotiate with Hitler store owners in India, envoy says
World NowIsrael India store Hitler: Israel won't negotiate with Indian owners of store named Hitler.... -
Indian cartoonist's arrest on sedition charges sparks outcry
World NowIndia finds itself in the middle of a new free-speech controversy after authorities arrested cartoonist and anti-corruption activist Aseem Trivedi on sedition charges.... -
Starbucks opens first store in tea-centric India
Coffee giant Starbucks has now ventured into India, the land of chai teas and lassi yogurt drinks. A luxurious new store opened Friday in the Elphinstone Building in one of Mumbai’s most well-heeled neighborhoods – there’s a Hermes...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., Howard D. Schultz, India
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UM researchers mine data to uncover terrorist threats
U.S. counterterrorism efforts monitor and sort vast databases of information for clues on potential plots. Now a team of University of Maryland researchers have used data-mining techniques employed by online giants like Google and Amazon.com to aid in the...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Washington, DC, Religious Conflicts, Hamas, Mumbai Terror Attacks
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Bob Hope Airport scores with film production companies
Movie and television production at Bob Hope Airport has generated roughly $100,000 during the past six months for the airfield as studios use it as a backdrop — one TV series even transformed it into three airports, including one in Mumbai, India....
Tags: Arrested Development (tv program) , Juvenile Delinquency, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Bob Hope
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Trishna
Fox 5 San Diego staffThis movie is based on the novel by Thomas Hardy (no, not the villain in the latest Batman). That novel from the 1800s is brought into modern-day India. Trishna (Frieda Pinto) is trying to help her dad, who fell asleep in his truck and got badly injured....Tags: Michael Winterbottom, Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Riz Ahmed, Jack Nicholson, Thomas Hardy
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Woman killed in bus crash: 'She was a very darling person'
Tribune reporterAditi Avhad hadn't seen her parents in a year when they arrived at O'Hare International Airport from India Thursday. They piled into a bus for the trip back to the University of Missouri in Columbia, where Avhad was a grad student at the medical school....Tags: University of Missouri , India, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities
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'Beautiful Forevers' combines poverty and prosperity
Every page I turn lately seems anchored in economics. And politics aside, there is no denying these uncertain economic times have readers flocking to stories of poverty and power, examining how we provide for ourselves, and what the future might portend....
Tags: Journalism, Asha, Social Issues, Entertainment Events, India
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