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...blamed for the violent sundering of the Subcontinent. Singh's Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence portrays Jinnah as a secularist and a great statesman, an image that would make members of India's ruling, secularist Congress party squirm, as well as Islamists in Pakistan. But Singh's book seemed to pose the greatest threat to the BJP, a party struggling to find its political relevance since its thumping defeat in a national election earlier this year.(Read "The Fiery Nationalist Who's Roiling Indian Politics...
After I left Pyongyang, I began searching for a journalist willing to pose as a chocolate consultant. Eventually I found Antoine Dreyfus, a reporter for a French weekly. He would travel to North Korea under the pretext of doing a market study for the confectionary industry. I would return to Pyongyang with him, playing his assistant with a background in product marketing...
...Relations between the sexes, too, pose a problem. Royal told me that it is difficult to watch young men and women walk by on the street, flirting and touching each other with limbs exposed. In Azerbaijan, he said, a woman generally speaks sweetly and softly while looking only at her male partner. Royal feels that in New York he cannot express his opinions about relationships, or about religion more broadly. He believes that his English is bad enough that he could not hope to express the truths contained in the Koran, and encouraged me to read it for myself. Though...
...platform from which to launch runs for their domestic legislatures. Their expanding ambitions will bring new pressures: closer attention and the need to recruit more - and more plausible - candidates. They may yet overreach themselves. But hoping that they do is not a policy adequate to the threat they pose. With reporting by Leo Cendrowicz / The Hague, Bruce Crumley / Paris and John Nadler / Budapest...
Would this intervention be flawlessly executed? Of course not. But if ham-handed pay rules drive risky, highly rewarded activities out of big banks and into smaller firms - if big banks become boring again - that might not be all bad, since smaller firms presumably pose less risk to the financial system...