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...drawing its boundaries, as Musharraf suggested. Former Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said: "Mapmaking has to stop in South Asia. Such attempts would not be acceptable [even] in disguise." Still, it's a start, and Musharraf's formula was the first time a Pakistani leader has abandoned the key demand of a referendum for Kashmiris. If nothing else, his proposal should give momentum to talks later this month in New Delhi between India's and Pakistan's Prime Ministers. Musharraf's "food for thought," as the President described his remarks at the Iftar banquet, may have whetted the appetite...
...those who died in Tak Bai began on Monday, Oct. 25, a sultry day with the promise of rain in the air. That morning, about 2,000 Muslim villagers?men, women and children?gathered in a small park across the road from the police station. They had come to demand freedom for six men arrested for allegedly providing arms to Islamic separatist fighters. But the authorities were in no mood to oblige. In the station courtyard stood hundreds of heavily armed police and soldiers brought in to deal with the protest, their weapons drawn. At either end of the road...
Kathleen M. White, the owner of the quirky consignment shop Oona’s on Mass Ave. has sold Halloween costumes to Harvard students for years and said she doesn’t carry political masks because there isn’t any demand for them...
...market-driven health-care system can never be efficient. But our health-care system is bureaucracy driven, because of the doctors and health-care companies that benefit from its overuse and inefficiency. Only when the person receiving care is the person responsible for payment will normal supply-and-demand forces come into play and costs be reduced. Insurance is not the answer. It is the problem...
...trust, however, was squandered with the invasion of Iraq--and so the challenger finds the presidency within his grasp. Kerry may yet win as a result of the collapse of Bush's vision. But if he does, the scale of the challenges facing the new Commander in Chief will demand that he find one of his own. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington