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...world share Indian citizens' patriotism and passion for their country. To live up to the world's expectations and confidence, India must now turn to the 80% of citizens who live in rural areas and for whom life has barely changed in the past half-century. They must contend daily with illiteracy, pollution, poor housing, and shortages of water and electricity. Political corruption needs to be addressed and the progress of rural people embraced before the nation can pull through to true superpower status. Shailja Chaturvedi, Sydney...
...Meanwhile the Mahdi Army has ramped up its attacks against American troops and the Iraqi security forces. According to the same U.S. military official, Mahdi Army cells with Iranian backing were responsible for 75% of U.S. and Coalition deaths last month. The Americans contend that the Mahdi Army, which sprang up in 2003 as a nationalist militia opposed to both the U.S. occupation and Iranian interference, has since become heavily influenced by Tehran...
Observers of the boy crisis contend that families, schools and popular culture are failing our boys, leaving them restless bundles of anxiety--misfits in the classroom and video-game junkies at home. They suffer from an epidemic of "anomie," as Harvard psychologist William Pollack told me, adrift in a world of change without the help they need to find their way. Even in the youngest grades, test-oriented teachers focus energy on conventional exercises in reading, writing and other seatwork, areas in which girls tend to excel. At the same time, schools are cutting science labs, physical education and recess...
...seem wrongheaded, because there are plenty of reasons to be bearish on the dollar (and on dollar assets like U.S. stocks). The massive U.S. current-account deficit, which consists of the trade deficit and other transfers, shows no signs of disappearing. So investors know that they will have to contend with an increasing supply of dollars for years to come...
...appeared to have laid out a straightforward path for himself to reach the 2008 Republican nomination was John McCain. With the Republican establishment climbing aboard the Straight Talk Express, his campaign budgeted for a $100 million race, in which it would hire all the party's top talent and contend vigorously across...