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While terrorist attacks have touched off rounds of finger pointing between the Pakistani and Indian governments in the past, the Feb. 18 bombing of a Pakistan-bound train in India's western state of Haryana had no such effect. Within hours of the blast and fire that killed at least 68 people, most of them Pakistanis, on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express, politicians from both countries had vowed that the peace process would continue. Such acts, said Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, will only "strengthen the resolve" for "peace between the two countries." Indian officials, meanwhile, sent condolences to victims' families...
...around $42 billion-the sixth largest in the world. Despite all that money, Japan's armed forces have traditionally kept a very low profile, at home and abroad. But that's changing. Over the past few years, Japanese forces have taken part in operations in Iraq and the Indian Ocean. Conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last month elevated Japan's Defense Agency to a full-fledged Cabinet-level ministry, and is aiming to change the country's pacifist constitution, which could open the door for more frequent deployments of the SDF abroad. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney...
While terrorist attacks have touched off rounds of finger pointing between the Pakistani and Indian governments in the past, the Feb. 18 bombing of a Pakistan-bound train in India's western state of Haryana had no such effect. Within hours of the blast and fire that killed at least 68 people, most of them Pakistanis, on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express, politicians from both countries had vowed that the peace process would continue. Such acts, said Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, will only "strengthen the resolve" for "peace between the two countries." Indian officials, meanwhile, sent condolences to victims' families...
RETIRED. Chief Illiniwek, buckskin-clad mascot who for 81 years performed halftime "tribal" dances for the University of Illinois, despite protests from Native American groups who called the character demeaning; in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Officials acted under pressure from the NCAA, which in 2005 barred colleges with American Indian mascots from acting as hosts for postseason events...
...Indian Summer No Longer Bundle up, take the Red line to Park Street, and go ice-skating on the Commons. You know you gotta do it once before you graduate. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Frog Pond. Boston Common. $8 skate rental, $4 admission...