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Person of the Week I'LL SHOW YOU MINE IF ... Nuclear rivals Pakistan and India will try to get closer when President Pervez Musharraf calls on Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in Agra this weekend. The big question is whether Kashmir, their long-standing bone of contention, will get bravely discussed...
Lucinda writes from a very personal standpoint, and that can be difficult. When you go that close to the bone, you are always risking bathos--or being corny or cloying. She plays in dangerous territory, and sometimes you're not sure she's gonna pull it out. I am always amazed by her song Sweet Old World because it could so easily have been sentimental. Instead it is just haunting. It goes right to the heart of a kind of desperation that everyone has felt. And her words take you to another place and make you look at loneliness...
...doesn’t feel soft. It feels like bone...
...Changoiwalas are not alone. This past March, India's markets crashed, knocking 16% off the national stock index. Investors across the country were rattled, and Calcutta was rocked to the bone. Daily volume on the city's exchange plunged by more than 80% and has yet to recover. Officials reckon that 400 of the bourse's 450 active brokers are near bankruptcy. And most of them are no longer showing up at the office. The Calcutta Stock Exchange, India's third- largest and one of the most venerable in Asia, looks like some backwater bus depot, rather than the bustling...
...After he'd declared Microsoft a monopoly and in violation of antitrust laws, there were signs that Jackson was bone-crushingly weary of it all. He'd been on Microsoft's case, in one form or another, for over five years now. His remedy ruling was effectively a one-fingered salute to the appeals court: if this is wrong, it said, don't bring it back to me. He must have known they'd take the bait. It didn't matter: his point had been made, and made loudly...