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...Simon Robinson's "India Without the Slogans" painted a spot-on picture of India [June 4]. The bureaucracy, the indiscipline, the sycophancy and the religious conflicts at a drop of cow dung were all there when I studied and worked in India in the 1960s and '70s-and they persist. It may be the largest democracy, but the lack of political will and the corruption and conservatism curb the country's immense potential. I was recently in Australia, where I met an enthusiastic band of young Indians whose nationalism was intense. Yet with all their enthusiasm, you could detect...
...Simon Robinson's "India without the slogans" painted a spot-on picture of India [June 4]. The bureaucracy, the indiscipline, the sycophancy and the religious conflicts at a drop of cow dung were all there when I studied and worked in India in the 1960s and '70s - and they persist. It may be the largest democracy, but the lack of political will and the corruption and conservatism curb the country's immense potential. I was recently in Australia, where I met an enthusiastic band of young Indians whose nationalism was intense. Yet with all their enthusiasm, you could detect...
...final club officers talking to the press might actually be as much fact as fiction. The Committee report itself acknowledges the difficulty in “identifying the current officers” of the clubs but seems to ignore the fact that this problem will undoubtedly persist when the new policy is implemented. Approached by a member of the administration, any undergraduate could easily deny holding a leadership position in a club...
...much manpower and too much risk: at least two divisions of soldiers and plenty of opportunities for Hamas to take Israeli casualties in an urban setting that favors guerilla tactics. And at the end of any such operation, the likelihood would be that the threat from Gaza would persist...
...region have changed considerably since John Paul wagged his finger at Nicaraguan priest and Sandinista government minister Ernesto Cardenal on a trip to Managua in 1983, warning him to "straighten out the situation in your church." Catholics in Latin America continue to fight for social justice, and disagreements persist about just how and if welfare policy and religious piety should cohabitate. But after the specter of Marxism faded and John Paul proved to be a great champion of the poor, new alliances have formed. Liberation theologians still say and write things that are at odds with the Vatican hierarchy...