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...think the tribal piece is a short-term fix," says Owens. "It's more important to develop the governmental pieces and the ties between the central government and the provincial...
...revising, or does it just come out nearly the way it ends up?-George Wolfe, CONCORD, N.C.Oh, no, it's edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready...
...news that Haneef had attempted to leave the country was a surprise to Bosher. "I saw him on Friday. The last thing he said to me was could I come and fix his dishwasher." Haneef had a woman, believed to be his wife, living with him, but recently told Bosher that she had gone back to India. "I asked him but it was long-winded,'' he says. "She used to wear a veil, but not the thing that covered her whole face, just over her hair." Bosher recalls the couple only once having visitors. "The woman [visitor] was wearing...
...Challenge In "India without the Slogans," Simon Robinson complained about being let down by the "Incredible India" marketing campaign, since so many problems remain [June 4]. No one claims India is without troubles, but we're working to fix them. Unfortunately, Robinson does not see the opportunities in each challenge and the enormous impatience of 1 billion people seething to take the country forward. We are doing it on our terms and in our time. Vandana Chatterjee, Herzliya Pituach, Israel...
...proposed revisions could hurt the U.S. venture-capital industry, which helps small companies get big and is the envy of the world. Private-equity firms--which buy companies with mostly borrowed money, fix them up or pare them down, then sell them--are more controversial but have perhaps made corporate America more efficient and competitive. Ramping up taxes on these guys could lead to unpleasant consequences: think about the next Google going unfunded because money was diverted to pay taxes. Losing such opportunities might far outweigh the few billion dollars in annual revenue the tax change would bring...