VINDICA

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts. - Former New York Senator Danial Patrick Moynihan

There is a movie comming soon to a theater near you named 300. For those who liked Lord of The Rings, Sin City, V for Vendetta and other movies with innovative screen imagery, this movie is going to be the golden grail. From what I have seen, it is going to be breathtaking. There is a commemorative stone in Thermopylae in Greece that reads "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie". The event it commemorates is the battle of Thermopylae where a mere 300 Greek soldiers fighting under Leonidas (who was one of the Spartan Kings. Sparta, strangely and almost uniquely in history was a kindom that had two Kings). Most western historians have latched on to this battle as the defining moment in the history of western civilization, when Greece and western civilization itself stood on the precipice, facing a massive Persian army under Xerxes. What glory of glories, it is saved by the individual valour of 300 men fighting for freedom and...

The news it the article is less interesting than the general sweep of what it is posited to represent - the theory that third world companies are more efficient because of the necessity of having to battle government regulations and low income in their home countries and are hence on very good footing to compete in the globalized world. ...experts say they are strengthened by the twin imperatives of having to compete with old-guard multinationals and overcome the exigencies of commerce in the developing world, with its low incomes and high business costs Govindarajan, an Indian-born business professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire has the following to say: The very genesis of Indian multinationals has to be around business-model innovation. The reason that business-model innovation will come from India is that India is a very different laboratory

Voltaire quoted in a TIME magazine story. Even if I don't agree with what you say, I'm ready to fight to my death so you can say it.