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The brief sketches that follow are meant to remind readers of the breadth and depth of pop culture, and the impact, ephemeral or lasting, made by some of actors, directors, writers, musicians and other show people who died in 2008. They deserve long goodbyes, but these haiku sendoffs will have...
That's why Khaleda Zia's strategic decision to campaign with an alliance of four Islamist parties, including the Jamaat-i-Islami, which includes some who collaborated with the Pakistani military against the freedom movement, proved to be a huge miscalculation. She repeatedly invoked religion, proclaiming that a vote for...
• "Why he's interested in the job, and why Obama was so willing to hand it to him, is something of a puzzler ... The Interior secretary has almost no national profile and the position is hardly one that an ambitious politician would aspire to. It's the perfect job...
External intelligence gathering is the responsibility of the Research and Analysis wing (R&AW), India's equivalent of the CIA. But operations by Pakistan-based terror groups inside India involve some overlap in responsibility with the IB. Coordination among India's more than 12 intelligence agencies, and between the intelligence...
Admittedly, such vigorous activity comes with its negative side. Arrests become spectacles on national television, narrated by reporters on police captains’ speed dials. A general fear of wiretapping, legal and illegal, takes over the political and business classes. Nevertheless, corruption is being attacked day in and day out...