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...rice trade during the past 15 years. India is now more open to the world - and more exposed to global price fluctuations. Farmers and traders across India are now selling to the highest bidder. That means a lot of Indian rice that was once sold domestically is instead sold abroad for higher prices - which in turn drives up domestic prices. The government, in an effort to keep as much rice as possible at home to quell inflation, has banned exports of nonbasmati rice and adjusted price controls to discourage exports of aromatic basmati rice. "In desperation, the government is trying...
Bush is home from his last long tour abroad; the political world is focused on the race to succeed him; his lieutenants are leaving to write books explaining all that was not their fault. There is no way to know what he makes of this or how he processes the price of his policies. But the Tuesday medal ceremony, when he stood by George and Sally Monsoor and told Michael's story, provided a glimpse--not of a President with any doubt of the justice of his cause but certainly of a man reckoning with its cost. Bush talked about...
...have seemingly been caught off guard by the most predictable of challenges: discontent in Tibet and international condemnation of Beijing's record of repression. The extent of their surprise can be gauged by their reaction--a brutal crackdown on dissent at home and a deaf ear to criticism from abroad--which is more reminiscent of the heavy-handed communist regime of old than the modern, moderate Beijing that the Olympics are meant to showcase...
...Internet grows, the proliferation of blog and cable news has also led to an increase in access to information. Though these sources raise interesting new issues of accountability, they allow readers exposure to more international reporting from newspapers abroad along with instantaneous coverage provided by bloggers around the world. Furthermore, we can hope to see reporters financed by means outside of the traditional big media outlets. Innovative ventures (such as Pro Publica) which try to provide investigative reporting projects to the big media may become a part of the journalistic landscape in the future...
...days when Ronald Reagan, in his 1964 speech for Barry Goldwater, promised America the “ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order.” Until it finds its way back out of this mess, the Republican elite promises us a platform of war abroad, and a massive, intrusive government at home. To paraphrase Heston, they can have this country when they can pry it from our cold, dead hands...