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...subject of its own culpability. That's a mistake, says Mushirul Hasan, a professor of history at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University. "The government should say, 'This could be the result of what happened in Gujarat.' Then people would see that they were taking a fairly decent position instead of trying to brush it under the carpet...
Americans struggling to find work, get a decent pay raise or buy a home must marvel at the peculiar worries of Bill Gross. A legendary investor, Gross runs the $76 billion Pimco Total Return bond fund. In recent weeks he has sold $6 billion in Treasury bonds, activity that has contributed to a sharp rise in mortgage interest rates. Gross, though, is more concerned about bad things that might happen in the future, not what's happening now. "Two or three years down the road," he says, "inflation might be a real pressure cooker...
...been a good summer for Disney, with big hits in the multiplexes (Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean and Freaky Friday) and decent earnings last quarter. Still, CEO Michael Eisner faces plenty of challenges--first among them, renegotiating Disney's distribution contract with Pixar, the computer-animation house behind Nemo and other hits. He talked with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner...
...These actions are cowardly and criminal, and are condemned by the many decent and honorable officers who serve the people of Boston on a daily basis,” BPD Commissioner Paul F. Evans said in a statement to the press...
...others suggest that Hadley's hard-line views on Iraq--going back to the first Bush Administration, when he was an arms-control expert under Defense Secretary Dick Cheney--may have influenced which memos he remembered and which he didn't. "He comes across as this mild-mannered, quite decent lawyer who wants everyone to feel like the process has worked fairly," says a former senior staff member. "But there's really only one party whose unhappiness gets him moving, and that's the Pentagon. That's where his sympathies lie." A current Hadley aide responded vigorously to the suggestion...