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...Jodhpur for the start of a nine-day Hindu religious festival, a sudden panic caused a stampede that killed at least 200 people and injured at least 60 more. An official said a wall had collapsed near the Chamunda Devi temple and alarmed revelers; other reports blamed a bomb scare and a group trying to cut in line...
...growing public sense that he knows what he's talking about and isn't going to get crazy on us. His demeanor has rendered foolish all the rumors about his alleged radicalism. This guy is the furthest thing imaginable from an extremist; McCain, by his own admission, is the bomb-thrower in this race...
...Boehner himself was once a bomb thrower, the only remaining member of the Gang of Seven - a band of young conservative members who delighted in harassing the Democratic majority in the early 1990s. But in recent years, he's become more of a moderate, elected to lead his conference on a platform of bipartisanship. As the top Republican on the Education and Workforce Committee, he worked with Democrats to pass No Child Left Behind and the Pension Protection...
...scramble to secure hotels and government offices means you can be screened two or three times just to get into a building these days. The international airport in neighboring Rawalpindi was closed to taxis and civilian vehicles the night I flew in because of bomb threats. Worshippers at one of the biggest mosques now have to park some distance away after another bomb scare. Diplomats have started removing their consular license plates and replacing them with ordinary plates to lessen the chances of being spotted by would-be assassins. Diplomats have become so wary of venturing out from the relative...
...thing India does not doubt is that the 123 Agreement will transform the way the country is viewed in the eyes of world. According to strategic affairs analyst Manoj Joshi, without access to international nuclear trade, India "could boast of our bomb, our BPO prowess, economic growth, invites to the G-8 meetings and candidacy for the UN Security Council seat? But we were firmly at a different level from, say, China. They could import powerful computers, uranium, sensitive machine tools, software and components for satellites that were denied to us." Today, that changed, as did the international community...