Sometimes, life is too fatalistic for my tastes. It’s a fundamentally anti-American thing to say that we are too molded by the past, that our destinies are rough-hewn before we have control of our ...

For those who wonder why I’ll still bet on the US…. At least one BRIC country isn’t quite so daunting: Deepak Sharma, 26, failed several exams when he was enrolled at a top engineering college outs...