Word: longingly
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...Despite their concerns about recent developments in the relationship, many in India are confident in their country's long-term ties with the U.S. More than 3 million people of Indian origin now live in the U.S., while Indians comprise the biggest pool of foreign students in American universities, and wealthy Indian professionals are creating an increasingly effective India lobby in Washington. "India may not be the top priority now," says Raman, "but there's no reason why it won't be in the future...
...former television-quiz-show contestant and law student, Samak entered politics in the 1970s, winning a seat in parliament from Bangkok's military-populated Dusit district. He eventually held several Cabinet posts, including deputy premier. Samak's long-stated ambition was to become Prime Minister, but his time at the top was brief. He was disqualified from holding the premiership by the Constitutional Court after just nine months because he had violated the office's prohibition on holding a second job - his popular television cooking show, which he spiced and flavored with pungent political commentary...
...used to be, as Britain's soaring rates of teen sex and pregnancy indicate. The annual British Social Attitudes surveys chart a steady liberalization of British views on sex, with a majority of the public now finding nothing wrong with sex before marriage and same-sex relationships. Brits have long been apt to say they've got no problem with what people get up to in the privacy of their own bedrooms. But a tour of the erotica show in London suggests the stricture on privacy may be eroding...
...leaders have long maintained that the destruction of the mosque had been a spontaneous act, but the new report calls the attack "meticulously planned" and carried out with the approval of senior members of the BJP, implicating L.K. Advani, who had been present at the site, and other top party leaders such Murli Manohar Joshi, and Kalyan Singh, then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. (See who's who among India's most influential people...
...inquiry may not publish its findings until 2011. But to the Brits for whom the failures of the Iraq war remain a stain on the nation, a full accounting can wait as long as needed. The liberal Guardian newspaper said the inquiry has the potential to "heal the wounds of war." "The primary aim of the probe," the paper's editorial page declared Monday, "must be to promote the reconciliation of the public with a political class which misled it so badly." Until then, the debate will undoubtedly continue...