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...TIME: Won't India's bureaucracy defeat your efforts to help the poor? Chidambaram: It is easy to blame the bureaucracy, yet it's the same bureaucracy that delivers in one place and fails to deliver in another. A bureaucracy is like a horse. It is only as good as the rider. If leadership is sound, we can extract results from the bureaucracy...
...thing that distinguishes the Indian poor from those in many other nations: they live in a democracy. And as India discovered last year, even its poorest can vote. At the general election, the ruling coalition led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, lauded for its bold economic reforms, suffered a shocking defeat at the polls, partly because of resentment from the poor that they were missing out on the boom. Into office came a government that needed the support of the Communists, and which had promised not to forget those at the bottom of the heap...
Although she twisted her knee early in the match, O’Riain bounced back to defeat her opponent 6-4, 6-4, and clinch the win for Harvard...
Freshman Dan Nguyen lost a marathon match to Nick Rinks in the Crimson’s only defeat of the morning. After Rinks grabbed a 6-3 victory in the first set, Nguyen struck back with a 6-3 second-set win. Both players refused to blink in the seemingly endless third set, but eventually Rinks persevered, winning...
Harvard will look for its first sweep of Princeton since 1984 in Jadwin Gym, in a game that will be televised on the YES Network. The Crimson can gain confidence from its 61-57 home win over the Tigers on February 5th, which broke a streak of 10 straight defeats against Princeton. That humiliating defeat, combined with one of the worst seasons in school history, will surely have the wounded Tigers in a nasty mood...