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Salman Rushdie. Anita Desai. Amitav Ghosh. If you have to describe Indian literature written in English, words like highbrow and worthy come to mind. But while the country's serious writers - most recently Aravind Adiga - continue to attract international acclaim, domestically they are being overshadowed by a new breed of author...
...Mind over Political Matter Finally someone has recognized why we elect our Presidents based on primitive emotions and not reasoned discourse [Oct. 20]. After 50 years of voting for both Democratic and Republican Presidents, in 2004 I watched dumbfounded as Ohio, which had suffered the loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs, voted Bush back into office to pursue four more years of vanity, Constitution-shredding and a high-school-level understanding of geopolitics. It was then that I realized that presidential elections are more about biology than intellect. All Karl Rove had to do was present George...
...north, in a roadside stall off State Highway 1, Adrianne Rochford contemplates the election while selling crayfish and mussels to passing tourists. "It's a tricky one," says Rochford, who's voted Labour most of her life. Yes, she's heard praise for Key and wouldn't mind seeing him in the Beehive. But she adds: "Who's it going to help?" New Zealanders would have a variety of answers to that question. But in many cases, it's not help exactly that they want. More than anything, come Nov. 8, they're looking for something...
...relationship with Obama is still in its formative phase, but history may hold some clues. It has been 48 years since a sitting Senator has been elected President, but in that time, five went directly from the Senate to the vice presidency. Some of them - Walter Mondale comes to mind - served as all-purpose advisers and troubleshooters for the President. Others chose specific portfolios - as Al Gore did in taking charge of areas like the environment, technology and reorganizing the operation of the Executive Branch...
...levying a 10% tithe on farmers. Since heroin use is dropping steadily in the West, the value of opium is diminishing - that's why officials are especially alarmed by the Taliban's stockpiles. "Who would have reasons to hold on to a devalued stock? People who have mischief in mind," says Costa. He believes that the Taliban is saving the opium for lean times. He says the hundreds of Afghans working for the U.N. drug office in southern Afghanistan have recently found notices posted by the Taliban advising farmers not to grow opium this year. A similar edict...