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the Brown Immigrant Woman of Pepsi

"Being a woman, being foreign-born, you've got to be smarter than anyone else,"

Indian born Indra Nooyi is now the new CEO of pepsi. Pepsi is now one of the biggest American companies to be run by a woman. She has an interesting history of thoughts on being an immigrant and being a woman in the work environment. Here are some articles on her...

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I say Payaal Patel for CEO!

How to make Naan Bread

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-naan-bread

Galloway does his thang

Anna from SKY news interviews George Galloway (UK MP) in this 9 minute clip. Seriously, this guy has the biggest balls in Britain.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8302753919953151010

Kwhy You Skype?

"Talk is cheap and getting cheaper" proclaims a BBC article on VoIP and Skype. Not in the UAE it isn't, nor in other countries that ban internet telephony. But as users find myriad ways to get around the blocks, it's the short-sighted telcos who will ultimately lose out.

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Man Push Cart

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a Pakistani immigrant, struggles to drag his heavy cart along the streets of New York to his corner in Midtown Manhattan. And every morning, from inside his cart he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. He is the worker found on every street corner in every city. He is a man who wonders if he will ever escape his fate.


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Iran's president starts blogging

State-run television announced the blog's launch on Sunday, urging the public to send written messages to the president through the website.

In his first entry Ahmadinejad wrote about his childhood, the country's Islamic revolution and Iran's war with Iraq.

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Das Fraulein

A film about three female migrants from the former Yugoslavia has won the prestigious Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival.

The Swiss-German production Das Fraulein (The Young Lady) is the story of an encounter between the three immigrants, who settle in Switzerland.

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