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...strikes. And that may be exactly why the stakes are being raised. Indian bombers and helicopter gunships attacked hundreds of suspected Pakistan-backed infiltrators Wednesday, with some of the bombs landed on the Pakistani side of the border. "This was the largest incursion into India since 1948, and the object is less military than political," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "By the choice of terrain, this looks less like an attempt to capture territory than a means of keeping international focus on Kashmir. Pakistan is concerned that if things remain quiet in the region, the world will forget...
...highest mountain, has returned from its search -- and is split about whether Mallory succeeded. Although the team did find the explorer?s frozen remains in the snow -- including several letters, goggles, and other personal effects -- they did not find the body of his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, nor the object they dearly hoped to find: a Kodak camera, which might have yielded photos of the pair at the summit...
After the fiasco in the Senate, House Republicans are fully aware that they need to pass a full-fledged measure on gun control, reports TIME Congressional correspondent Jay Carney. At the same time they do not want to unduly antagonize those in core constituencies who object to stringent gun curbs. "Many Congress-watchers believe House leaders are trying to concede while saving face," says Carney, "Republicans do not want to appear as if they are being railroaded by Democrats." The risk is that they may give their opponents still more ammunition. "The vote to put off the measure gives Democrats...
Rather than turn kids' sports into object lessons in doing "whatever it takes to win," we parents should consult Rudyard Kipling (no New Age softy, he). In his classic poem If, Kipling wrote, "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,/and treat those two imposters just the same...you'll be a man, my son." Or a fine young woman. And, what's more, a good sport...
Though the University denies it helped to organize the early March meeting, it is named as the object of the NLRB complaint...