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...many of them fatal and irreversible - on all levels. Although there must be a thorough accounting of what went wrong and why, I beg the media to focus on the kindness and strength of the human spirit that we are seeing now. Just as with 9/11 and the Indian Ocean tsunami, good can come out of disaster. We have some tough choices ahead. I pray that we make the right ones. Jane LaBreche Hebert Friendswood, Texas, U.S. Katrina and its aftermath demonstrate our misplaced priorities: cutting taxes for the rich instead of shoring up infrastructure and maximizing corporate profits...
...Well, it was nice talking to you since you’re Indian...
...under an autocratic government and the suspension of civil liberties during Indira Gandhi's 1975-1977 Emergency, Bachchan played a series of angry young men who dared to take on a venal, feudal establishment. To millions of cinemagoers catching a brief respite from their hardscrabble lives, he was the Indian rebel with a cause...
...Second, respecting the peaceful nuclear rights of such an egregious cheater as Pyongyang can hardly help the international campaign to dissuade Iran from building nuclear weapons under the cover of an energy program. As one Indian security analyst put it, "Why should India back Washington's effort to refer Iran's nuclear misbehavior to the United Nations?" North Korea withdrew from the NPT, made bombs, and has a covert uranium enrichment program it denies exists?yet Washington has affirmed its right to nuclear power plants. Why not treat Iran?an NPT member with an internationally inspected, overt enrichment program...
...year ago GAUTAM GOSWAMI was basking in glory. The Indian press had lionized the district magistrate from the eastern state of Bihar for standing up to his political bosses in order to enforce election campaign rules. The sight of an upstanding bureaucrat efficiently coordinating relief to thousands of victims of monsoon floods in a state notorious for crime, corruption and poverty caught TIME's eye: we made him one of our heroes for 2004. But in August, the Bihar State Vigilance Investigation Bureau charged the 39-year-old civil servant and 10 alleged accomplices with embezzling millions of dollars...