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...world's biggest democracy, a self-consciously secular nation with some 150 million Muslim citizens, and as a result has always been careful to distance himself from the more extremist elements of Hindu nationalism. Today he rules by dint of a broad coalition of regional parties whose governing accord expressly precludes him from promoting the Ayodhya issue. Unless he's seen as coming down hard on any provocation over the temple issue, his coalition partners could bolt and remove him from power. And Vajpayee's international efforts to project the differences between secular, tolerant India and the more unstable...
That's what makes DCIS treatment so controversial. What if most of the tiny tumors that show up in high-resolution mammograms are the ones that grow the slowest or maybe even disappear of their own accord? It probably doesn't matter too much how quickly you treat these slow-growing tumors; most women would survive. And if that's the case, wouldn't it make sense to leave those tumors alone until you could figure out whether they are going to grow? Some breast-cancer experts even speculate that more women may die with these tumors in their breast...
...against foreign Mujahedeen fighters and other terrorists. He'll also probably try to distance himself from the Bosnian war, arguing that he was not responsible for the actions of the Bosnian Serb leadership. But that's a tricky one to sustain, since Milosevic himself signed the Dayton peace accord on Bosnia...
Frenchman Christian Blanc has spent his career doing what most people try to avoid: finding tough but necessary solutions to explosive problems. In the late '80s, as chief government negotiator in New Caledonia, Blanc brokered a peace accord that ended years of bloody separatist violence. Later, as head of the Paris public-transport authority, he battled unruly unions and a waffling Socialist government to end an era of incessant, paralyzing strikes. As president of Air France from 1993-97, Blanc brought the airline from the brink of bankruptcy to profitability - and partial privatization - by alternatively cajoling and compelling rebellious staff...
...cells, Rumsfeld chided what he called "loose talk" about whether any of the captives could be considered anything but terrorists and "unlawful combatants." It was a not-so-oblique rebuke to Secretary of State Colin Powell's suggestion the day before - that the Administration reconsider whether to accord even unlawful combatants treatment prescribed for war prisoners under the Genevea Convention, if only to ensure that U.S. prisoners of war continue to receive it in the future. "There are no ambiguities in this case," Rumsfeld insisted, wearing shirt sleeves and a Defense Department cap, adding that it would be "a terribly...