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Border Conflict I read with interest Ishaan Tharoor's story [Aug. 31]. It is clear that a major conflict between India and communist China would pose a very serious global threat. Yet I share his view that the long-term survival of India as a multicultural nation is more securely...
Elephant and Dragon I read with interest your essay on Sino-Indian tensions [Aug. 31]. It is clear that a major conflict between India and communist China would pose a very serious global threat. Yet I share the view that the long-term survival of India as a multicultural nation...
Re "How the Taliban Thrives" [Sept. 7]: Our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is comparable to placing one's hand in a pail of water. When you stick your hand into the water, you create an effect. When you pull it out, the water returns to its original state. While...
I don't mean that there was something uniquely American about Kennedy's Rabelaisian style, or even that he was special because he was a member of America's most famous political family. Other political cultures have reformed rogues, just like Kennedy, and others have dynasties, too. Indeed, there have...
For the past several years, Britain's Department of Health has spent about $200 million a year on hiring international management-consultant firms, hoping to find ways to counter rising health-care costs associated with an aging population, expensive new medical treatments and rising patient expectations. The result is often...