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...India is a salutary case study for its renewed commitment to agriculture - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for "another Green Revolution" in his Aug. 15 Independence Day speech - as well as for how much still needs to be done. In 2004 politicians in New Delhi got a wake-up call on the plight of the country's farmers. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ran for re-election in 2004 with a campaign slogan of INDIA SHINING, aimed at capitalizing on the country's astounding record of rapid growth. But India's struggling farmers didn't see much shining...
...Next Dubai" Saakashvili, 41, is the son of intellectuals, his father a doctor, his mother a professor. In 1993 he got his first prolonged taste of the U.S. when he won a fellowship to study law at Columbia. He lived in New York City and Washington for several years, passed the New York bar exam and worked in private practice before being summoned back to Georgia to be part of a movement of young reformers, many of whom had been living in the West, that would transform what had been until 1991 a republic of the Soviet Union...
...ever so slightly, on the corner of a handkerchief. But these tics are a small price to pay for his biggest asset: his tremendous, limitless energy. Columbia's Mitchell calls it "government by adrenaline." Saakashvili is addicted to quick, dramatic acts of leadership. Particularly in the early years, he got results. One example: when he came to power, Georgia's traffic police were notorious bribe seekers. So he fired every one of them and hired an entirely new, clean police force...
Though the warm rain outside was a memory that it’s still fall in Cambridge, fans of Harvard women’s hockey got their first taste of winter Saturday afternoon...
...could kind of tell that she was looking to pass far side,” Farni said of her steal. “I got lucky, I guess. She did what I thought she was going to do, and there wasn’t anybody between me and the goalie, so I had a chance...