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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh easily won a vote of confidence in the Indian Parliament on Tuesday evening, more than two hours behind schedule but with a comfortable margin of victory, 275 to 256, after a day of bruising attacks that turned the floor of parliament into an arena of hand-to-hand political combat...
...could turn deadly in a flash, as they had when four foreign journalists were killed last July. Bullet holes in the stucco wall behind his work desk remind Andrew that two weeks ago an American rescue team attempting to save trapped Rangers blasted rocket-fired grenades into the third floor, destroying two bathrooms and obliging the owner to make some major repairs before the room was habitable. But once he is on the streets, he is on the move, following a tricky routine perfected by reporters since the first U.S. troops landed last December. ''Getting around depends entirely on your...
...member explains: ''He talks about his employees as being 'my soldiers.' People from military backgrounds are used to working hard and giving pretty much undivided loyalty to their superiors. That's the way Mr. Eisenberg likes it.'' When Rabin left Beijing last week, Eisenberg stayed on at his 35th-floor office in the China World Hotel. He was host at two banquets the same night -- one for a provincial governor and the other for officials of China's state television network. Two days later, he flew to India, where the Ministry of Power wanted to talk with him about building...
...Ramada Renaissance. There, goofing and jamming together, were U2's lead singer Bono Vox and guitarist the Edge as well as Lou Reed, the grandfather of punk, Genesis Founder Peter Gabriel and New Orleans' own rock-'n'-soul kings, the Neville Brothers. Gyrating happily on the dance floor to the improvised mix of music was Joan Baez. This nightly ritual was the after-hours afterglow of the first-ever rock- 'n'-roll caravan for human rights, a six-city rolling tour of rockers, to focus U.S. attention on the victims of political persecution and torture around the world. Staged...
...reason roughly half the people who write the laws have law degrees. But surely there's value in having some teachers as legislators when No Child Left Behind is on the table, or some doctors and nurses on the committees dissecting health-care proposals. Would actors perform better in floor debates? Would Al Franken lighten up the Congressional Record...