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...investigation into the death of Jdimytai Damour, 34, is ongoing, and now that the lawsuits have begun (Damour's family has sued Wal-Mart, Green Acres Mall and other companies connected to the event), the major players have gone dark. The family's attorney, Jordan Hecht, did not return a call requesting comment, and a Wal-Mart spokesperson said he could not elaborate beyond the vague statements the company has already made...
...much of the past year, most Democratic lawmakers have supported Obama's plan. But with Obama's election, two key Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee have begun to entertain the possibility of another solution: Developing a new government-wide policy different from the field manual to regulate interrogation techniques, a plan that appears to be drawing support within the intelligence community but some concern from human rights groups...
...year-olds cannot read a page. More than 440 million Indians, 40% of the population, are under 18, and it is not clear how India will generate enough jobs over the next two decades to employ them. Facing those hard realities, the global corporate world has begun to see terrorism the way many Indians do - as one of those utterly shocking and yet immovable problems, such as child labor, unsafe drinking water and filthy streets, that become part of the background of living and working in India...
...Gujarat. Shows of unity and strength won't erase the pervasive culture of corruption in public service. There are no guarantees of the real change Mumbai is clamoring for, but, says Guha, "it's more likely now than at any time in the past." And it has already begun. It's there in the frankness of tycoon Ratan Tata's comments about his beloved Taj, acknowledging the "woefully poor" response of the police, and the three hours that passed before the fire engines arrived. It's there in the families of the dead police officers who rebuffed the grandstanding condolences...
...pursue peace with India. Zardari has been pushing for greatly expanded trade and commercial links and the liberalization of the restrictive visa regime between the two countries. Indeed, his Foreign Minister was in New Delhi for talks on these issues when the terrorist assault occurred. Zardari had also begun winding down his government's official support for Kashmiri militancy and had announced the disbanding of the ISI's political wing. When he went so far as to propose a "no first-strike" nuclear policy--matching India's stance but violating his own military's stated doctrine--Indians began to believe...