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...pursuit of happiness brings problems in its wake, as Indians are discovering. Economic growth has lifted living standards, but expectations have risen even faster. Deep in the villages of India's heartland, people now dream of possessing things long out of their grasp, from televisions to clean water. Yet India's economy is kindling desires faster than it can convert them into reality. Anyone who has been to an Indian job fair, to an army recruitment camp, or to a call center on the day it advertises new positions, has seen the crushing disappointment on the faces of thousands...
...Buddha into a social commentary of immense urgency about contemporary India?especially the parts of the country, like Bihar, which are far removed from the glamorous boomtowns like Bangalore. Ironically, it is not the solution Mishra offers (Buddhism) but the problem he identifies?the restlessness in India's heartland?that really lingers in the reader's mind. Mishra may well be right?Buddhism, with its emphasis on curbing desire, might be an answer to India's problems?but nothing in his book offers much hope that the religion will make a large-scale comeback in its native land. What Mishra...
...conservatism. Clooney's father Nick, a former Cincinnati, Ohio, anchorman and host on cable's American Movie Classics, ran for Congress in Kentucky as a Democrat and got crushed. Though George raised funds, he didn't do any campaigning for his dad. "It would have been Hollywood versus the heartland," he says. "I definitely would have hurt him." Charm, apparently, will go only...
...scale of the ongoing carnage represents a Herculean challenge for election organizers: Mortar attacks and car bombings continue almost daily even in and around Baghdad's heavily guarded "Green Zone," which houses government and U.S. headquarters. Plainly, it's not just in the Sunni heartland north of the capital that U.S. forces face an ongoing battle to create an environment safe enough to open polling stations. Indeed, Deputy Chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East Lt. Gen. Lance Smith said Wednesday that the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has claimed responsibility for numerous terror attacks, had relocated...
...staff were among the 12 wounded. In the ensuing shootout with embassy guards and Saudi security forces, Al Juhaini and three other militants were killed and one was captured. The raid constituted the first major Islamic terrorist attack in Jidda, long considered more tolerant than the Kingdom's Wahhabi heartland. Still more disturbing were Al Juhaini's past ties with the authorities, suggesting that residual sympathy for al-Qaeda may exist among elements of the Saudi regime. Al Juhaini, 28, was a former member of the Saudi religious police, the ubiquitous squad that enforces public dress codes and other strict...