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...Still, Singh and the Congress Party have lived to fight another day. The confidence vote was called to resolve a bitter dispute over the administration's support for a civilian nuclear-technology agreement between India and the U.S. India's two main leftist parties pulled out of Singh's coalition government over the pact, which they say makes India subservient to U.S. strategic interests. Singh, who argued nuclear power is needed for continued economic development, can now push ahead with the deal, which still needs the approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.S. Congress...
...coming here today was a very clear message from him that he's not bitter and that he wants...
...long it took. And how many bitter memories still plague those who tend Bosnia's unquiet graves...
...there sometimes appears a healthy anger with almost as many teeth as Jaws. Not a bad attribute for a for a man who wants to exchange wet fantasies for dry humor. As Johnson (Samuel, not Lyndon) once observed, ''Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,/ Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest...
Veterans of American wars have been memorialized in literature, lore and granite. But for the fighters in one bitter conflict, a 1985 commemorative postage stamp has had to suffice. The Korean War is not an event that has lingered in the public memory; its veterans, members of the silent generation, came home with their mouths shut, preferring to keep their angst private. This comprehensive history at last gives voice to their experience and their anguish. On June 25, 1950, Soviet-armed troops from the People's Democratic Republic of Korea charged across the 38th parallel in an attempt to unify...