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...able to read whole texts of materials not in the public domain. No more than 20 percent of such a book can be viewed, even after multiple searches. It is our opinion that making such snippets available will not only massively facilitate research but may perhaps even compel readers to purchase a physical copy...
Some analysts believe that in the long run, pressure from the outside world?and the Indian media's need for new funds?may compel lawmakers to ease restrictions. But for now, the cap looks likely to remain for some time?and ironically, that may work out in favor of the foreigners in the end. Competition for reporters and other staff has pushed up labor costs for existing newspapers, and huge marketing expenditures threaten to eat into profit margins. Ansari of Mid Day says he is "concerned about some of the competitive strategies being adopted," warning that they "can only hurt...
...fears that diarrhea could spread. Fires set off by broken gas mains raged untamed, and hooligans controlled some zones. City officials--stung by criticism of their failures to clear the city before the storm--took no chances this time. On Tuesday, Nagin instructed police and the National Guard "to compel the evacuation of all persons" from the city...
This is not to say that the federal government’s response has been exemplary; in fact, it has been far from it. Heads should roll at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security, and with any luck public outrage will compel the firing of the untalented hacks who were in charge during the destruction of New Orleans. However, the suggestion that without war (à la Michael Moore’s line of “all our helicopters are in Iraq”), or Bush’s budget cuts, or some...
...establish the truth about the history of Africa” is Goal #1 of Panafest and enticement enough to compel your correspondent, a gadfly of colonial history and sensitive about sweeping, Pan-African pronouncements of historical truth, to hightail it to this one-time capital of Britain’s Gold Coast Colony (Cape Coast, Ghana) where the confab is gathering...