Word: krishnas
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...surprisingly, India's more hard-line Hindu politicians have been quick to seize upon the possibility that Pakistan?not Gujarat?might be to blame for the Bombay attack. Visiting the scene of the blasts, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani declared, "Pakistan's nefarious designs are not limited to Kashmir or Punjab but to the whole of India." He specifically cited his suspicion that "SIMI has been acting in conjunction with the Lashkar-e-Toiba." Similarly, Gujarat's BJP chief minister, Narendra Modi, who returned to office last November on a wave of Hindu self-assertion, blames what he calls...
...Instead, both sides have displayed remarkable self-restraint. Indian Deputy Prime Minister and Hindu hard-liner, Lal Krishna Advani, cautioned the country's Parliament: "These attacks are specifically aimed at ending the normalcy we have achieved in the Valley." Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a Taliban supporter and chief of Pakistan's fundamentalist Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, was on a goodwill visit to India at the time of the attacks?and lost no time in condemning them. He added that he would encourage both governments to hold peace talks, and called all Kashmiri militants to "cease their operations." Even Zafar Akbar...
...make peace with neighboring Pakistan. At home, Vajpayee's star has never been higher. The opposition Congress Party is asleep on its benches. Last month Vajpayee quashed a leadership challenge from within his own Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by supporters of hard-line Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani. Even more bold, Vajpayee has drafted a moderate Hindu leader to come up with a compromise to one of the longest-running flash points in Indian politics?the decades-old dispute over whether a Hindu temple should be built at a site in Ayodhya where a mosque once stood. The Telegraph...
...Elizabeth Smart brainwashed, as her father insists? Does she need to be deprogrammed like some runaway Moonie or Hare Krishna? Or is she simply a victim of the famous Stockholm syndrome, named for a 1973 Swedish bank robbery in which the hostages began to identify with their captors...
Even the most welcome new directors are wary of the liabilities they may face under corporate-governance reforms. "The real problem with the old system is that it was relatively easy to pass the buck," says Krishna Palepu, a professor at Harvard Business School who has studied the functioning of audit committees. "Now that's much more difficult." Hall says he would decline to serve as any board's financial expert (a new rule requires audit committees to disclose whether they have one), despite his years in investment banking and corporate finance. "That's an invitation to a lawsuit...