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The heroes are poor-but-honest and selfless federal prosecutors plus Martin Siegel, the handsome dealmaker who repents his misdeeds--while, not incidentally, providing lots of material for the author.
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There has been relatively little movement from poor country to rich country over the last 40-plus years.
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An amalgam of "Oliver Twist, " "The Three Musketeers" and Bollywood extravagance, it's the saga -- mainly in English, plus some subtitled Hindi -- of a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, played as a young man by Dev Patel, who pulls himself up by his brains instead of his bootstraps, and gets a shot at becoming a millionaire on a wondrously garish Indian TV quiz show.
WSJ: Telluride Thrills
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"The challenge is that the interface on a cell phone is so poor that anything you can do to reduce the number of keystrokes and the number of menus is a plus, " Parr said.
CNN: Excite launches mobile Web portal
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Only a century in a Sheffield Shield match last week secured the 35-year-old's test spot after a run of poor form in the longer form of the game and the lefthander responded with only his third 50-plus Test score since his 134 against Pakistan in January.
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