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...Elsewhere, in Calcutta, India's cricket XI (as cricket protocol describes the 11 members of a team) were faring no better in their attempt to stop the Australian juggernaut. The arrogant, swaggering Aussies had won 16 straight test matches (a remarkable achievement in a sport whose test matches, which pitch country against country, are played over five days and as often end in a draw as produce a result), and struggling India was expected to put up only modest resistance. Indeed, Indian cricket has been as subject to the bribery malaise as its politics, with the former captain...
...factors. Pakistan called the move "prejudicial to the pursuit of stability in our region," which has been on a war footing since the December attack on India's Parliament, blamed on Pakistani militants. As troops traded shots in Kashmir, four policemen were killed at a U.S. cultural center in Calcutta and a bomb exploded near the British High Commission in Islamabad...
...thoroughly inspired. Irwin Hentschel and a partner had started a travel company in 1977, when she was 25. AmericanTours International, which operates U.S. tours for foreigners, now employs 300 and does $150 million a year in business. "[Mother Teresa] said each of us has to find our own Calcutta," says Irwin Hentschel, who promised the nun she'd use her business savvy to help the world's neediest people, especially women and children, help themselves. Her foundation supports humanitarian causes in several countries, but rather than sit behind a desk writing checks, Irwin Hentschel likes wading...
...Hentschel gently coaxes Tammy's story out of her. Drug rehab failed twice, and the latest of her 13 children is a crack baby. Tammy's boyfriend shows up, and the two lead Irwin Hentschel back to their home, a makeshift tent next to an abandoned house. "It's Calcutta," Irwin Hentschel says, looking in. "On the one hand, I want to say, 'Pull yourself together.' And on the other side of it, you think, 'There but for the grace...
...selection is South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, because he took an important step in resolving one of the final stalemates of the cold war. RAHUL GHOSH Calcutta, India...