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Byline: Tara Pepper, Ginanne Brownell
Transmission By Hari Kunzru
Cubicle-bound computer geeks everywhere dream of destroying the corporations that co-opt their waking hours. But unlike Kunzru's Bollywood-obsessed Indian techie, Arjun Mehta, few actually try it. Mehta sets off from Bombay for Silicon Valley only to find he's been duped: the high-flying job doesn't exist and he's trapped in low-paying drudgery. Terrified of being shipped home Mehta unleashes a computer virus, thinking he'll make his name by eradicating it. Kunzru deftly depicts his rage against an unreliable world, alternating between biting satire and lyrical narrative.
--Tara Pepper
State-Building By Francis Fukuyama
This wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis argues persuasively that some of the thorniest issues of our time--poverty, AIDS, drugs and terrorism--result not from overregulation but from weak ...
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