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...monument care is split between a confusing cluster of local and national authorities, NGOs, religious orders, businesses and individuals. The Taj and its immediate environs come under six government agencies: the ministries of culture, environment and tourism, two city authorities and one state body. Thakur is careful not to condemn the ASI or the ministries, describing their staff as sincere professionals faced with an almost impossible task. But she also complains that turf wars and bureaucratic inefficiency have hampered coordination of efforts. For example, $10 million set aside eight years ago for monument restoration under a body called the National...
Blair's detractors condemn him as addicted to packaging and spin, and it's true he's slick at the arts of modern political communication. But they miss how naturally resolve comes to him. His performance last week was that of a man in full, an act of deftly judged juggling between directing his government's response to the bombings and trying to make sure the G-8 meeting of world leaders he was chairing at Gleneagles, a bucolic resort in Scotland, came to the ambitious conclusion on relieving African poverty that he has been straining to achieve...
...democratic nature of Musharraf's regime, I am willing to give him credit for these positive developments. But I am also increasingly disturbed by some of his recent actions. First, he appeared to side with religious bigots opposed to a mixed-gender "mini-marathon" in Lahore and failed to condemn the police harassment of the race's supporters, including leading human-rights lawyer Asma Jahangir. Then he backed a travel ban on gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai, preventing her from rallying support abroad for her cause. Under pressure from the U.S., the government has since granted her permission to leave...
...sports and arts are some new thoughts for television exposure. Wick is convinced that one of the reasons there has been no major new war for six years is the ability of people to look each other in the eye across continents and either praise worthy achievements or condemn villainous behavior. "Foreign policy is no longer the exclusive domain of the elites," he says. "Telecommunication has made it possible for governments to speak directly to people in other countries. The impact is unparalleled in the world's history...
Responding to Dyken, Neurosurgeon James T. Robertson of the University of Tennessee agreed that the excess surgery is "indefensible." Other surgeons are not so quick to condemn current practice. Since thorough studies have not been conducted, says Dr. Russel Patterson, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, "nobody knows whether the operation is overdone...