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...These are extraordinary goals, and given India's population, ones of extraordinary reach. They would task the best-run nation in the world. But ask some Indian officials how the objectives are supposed to be achieved by a public sector that has not - let us put this charitably - always been known for its Prussian efficiency, and you will be told, in effect, "No problem." Past performance (as the prospectuses of mutual funds say) is no guarantee of future returns. Just because India's progress was for years strangled by red tape and corruption, there is no reason to think...
...Ask Al Roker your questions for an upcoming interview, at time.com/10questions
...Saga: New Moon: Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan), Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black) and Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen, as if you didn't know). The audible rapture of the studio audience, in large part female, stirred Kimmel to that now-familiar remark, "Not since the Beatles..." The crowd swooned when Pattinson, asked if he'd been injured doing any of the movie's stunts, acknowledged, "I strained one of my ass-cheeks." When the ladies had a chance to ask questions, the ones directed to the men were mostly shirt-related. "Rob, is your shirt misbuttoning a fashion statement, or just carelessness...
...teachers," she says, before realizing the nightmare she was creating for herself and her child. Shutting down your inner helicopter isn't easy. "This is not a shift in perspective that occurs overnight," Matt admits after class. "And it's not every day that I consciously sit down and ask myself hard questions about how I want family life to be slower or better...
...Depending on who you ask, the two faiths are either closer than ever to bridging their differences or are renewing the kind of mistrust and incomprehension that has marked the relationship since the Anglican Church was formed after King Henry VIII's split from Rome in the 16th century. For those in the 77-million-strong Anglican Church (which includes the Episcopal Church in the U.S.) who are angry at its policy of allowing women and gay priests and bishops, and perhaps attracted by the liturgical and historical links with Catholicism, Benedict's official door-opening is an unexpected godsend...