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...Both sides have plenty of incentive to cut a deal. Beyond getting access for U.S. companies to India's $100 billion civil nuclear energy market, the Bush Administration has prioritized deepening U.S.-India ties based on India's potential as an economic powerhouse and a strategic counterweight to China. For India , the deal offers an end to decades of nuclear isolation, which is a precondition for its energy security and technological advancement - and, most importantly, it affirms India's great-power aspirations...
Nine days ago, I was distracted from late night work in my University Hall office by a most unexpected sound. A chorus of students on the steps of the building was singing Civil Rights songs. Intrigued, I went outside to observe about 100 mostly-black students standing together, many holding signs that read, “I am Harvard...
Americans may differ on how best to honor those who have given their lives in this war. Should the fight be redoubled as a tribute to the fallen? Or does our obligation to the dead mean ending the war that took their lives as soon as possible? After the Civil War, Major General John Logan proclaimed the first Memorial Day for the dead on both sides: "We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory...
...late May security forces seeking to rout the group bombarded the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp outside Tripoli. The fighting killed at least 50 soldiers and militants and an unknown number of civilians. It has been the deadliest internal clash since the end of the 15-year civil...
...that helped make Haiti the first black nation to throw off the yoke of European colonialism. It's hardly unusual that Chavez would want to promote such an anti-imperialist story - nor is it surprising that the man who will make the film is African-American Hollywood star and civil rights activist Danny Glover, a close friend of Chavez and of former left-wing Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (who was overthrown and forced into exile in South Africa three years...