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Instead, filing asbestos claims became a booming industry in its own right, and the estimated number of claimants has ballooned past 1.4 million people. Money-hungry lawyers took a connect-the-dots approach: drum up the standard legal precedents and then solicit clients through local ads or unions (which also sponsored mobile X-ray scans for asbestos-related illnesses). None of this required much investment, and the potential rewards were huge...
...long-term solution for national harmony believed in by hundreds of millions for decades - a purely secular state that respects all religions equally - is looking increasingly like some hoary fantasy. Vajpayee and his BJP claim to believe in secularism, but they came to power by banging the drum of Hindu pride - and fanning hatred of the Muslim minority - by stirring things up in Ayodhya, where a revered Hindu deity was supposedly born. The party has been in power in Delhi twice for a total of four years, and there hadn't been a single communal riot, giving widespread hope that...
...long-term solution for national harmony believed in by hundreds of millions for decades - a purely secular state that respects all religions equally - is looking increasingly like some hoary fantasy. Vajpayee and his BJP claim to believe in secularism, but they came to power by banging the drum of Hindu pride - and fanning hatred of the Muslim minority - by stirring things up in Ayodhya, where a revered Hindu deity was supposedly born. The party has been in power in Delhi twice for a total of four years, and there hadn't been a single communal riot, giving widespread hope that...
...genre normally confined to parades and football fields, few could have guessed that Broadway would be the next step in the evolution of marching band and drum corps. Yet having just finished its week-long run at the Wang Theatre, Blast! does just that. The show takes outdoor pageantry long consigned to the fringe of musical legitimacy and translates it into high art without sacrificing any of its popular appeal...
...It’s exciting but the last thing we need is a handful of senators and representatives in Washington beating the drum for their own ends,” he says. “I’m very fearful of it being politicized this much because if it falls in the hands of demagogic politicians, they’ll use it to inflame, to increase their own popularity.” For this reason, Cook says he isn’t ready to move on to a different subject. “The whole reason I got into...