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Here's the question of the week: what do the indian general election and the battle over a stake in Liverpool Football Club have in common? The answer: globalization is not an irresistible force. In India, the prosperity that has accrued to those who are part of the global economy was not enough to secure a victory for the political party that had boasted of India's shining high-technology sector. In Liverpool, an attempt by Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to purchase 30% of the club was-according to a poll in a local newspaper-opposed...
...grand scheme of things, of course, the Indian election is the bigger story, but the struggle for control of Liverpool is just as colorful and illuminating. (I had better declare an interest. Both my parents were born within a stone's throw of Liverpool's stadium, and I have been a rabid fan since I could walk...
...Outside soccer's World Cup-and even that isn't yet big news in North America or the Indian subcontinent-there are only two exceptions to the rule that sport isn't global. They are the National Basketball Association of the U.S. and the English Premier League. Both organizations recruit worldwide-the NBA now has players from 33 different nations on its roster, while on any given Saturday a 16-man Liverpool squad can include footballers of 10 nationalities. Both leagues provide exciting, all-action games of the kind that offend purists. And both have targeted Asia for growth. Last...
...Mountains Beyond Mountains, a brilliant and poignant testimonial to Farmer's altruism, as well as a chronicle of his dedication to eradicating diseases in poor countries. With Kidder as Farmer's credible biographer, I'd place the good doctor in TIME's Top 10. Edward D. Toland III Indian Wells...
...defeat may mark the end of an era. The Hindu-nationalist party had emerged as a major player on the Indian political stage in the early '90s by stoking the sectarian passions that led to successive waves of Hindu-Muslim violence. Vajpayee, however, always represented the gentler, more mainstream and statesmanlike face of a movement rooted in ethnic demagoguery in contrast to the relentlessly secular politics of Congress. As prime minister, he proved to be a sober, popular and widely respected statesman who navigated India through some of its most difficult crises. Indeed, he managed to avoid a potentially catastrophic...