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...issues - of which there are many. How will India maneuver its foreign policy amid the tempestuous politics of its neighbors? How will it secure the safety of its citizens from extremists and insurgents? How will it push economic growth and liberalization forward without triggering massive unemployment or environmental calamity? Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who begins a second term, may well have answers to those questions but he did not reveal them during the campaign. Columnist Anand Giridharadas, writing for the New York Times, summed up the Indian vote as a "big election about small things...
...Another furor erupted over a three-year-old American academic study that posited a greater Middle East divided along ethnic lines - proof, railed the Pakistani press, that the Americans were pursuing a policy of balkanization in the country. On May 18, the Nation published a story that said: "Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney ... The squad was headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander of US army in Afghanistan." The story was sourced to an interview by an unnamed...
...another battle with the City of Cambridge. On one side, President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, pushing his Program for Harvard College—an $85 million campaign to up the number of undergraduate Houses from seven to 10—sought to acquire a stretch of prime river-front property owned by the Massachusetts Transit Authority. But from his corner of City Hall, Councillor Alfred “Big Al” E. Vellucci moved to block tax-exempt Harvard’s expansion, hoping instead that private investors would develop the land and augment the city?...
...response to Washington's pressure, the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had thought it might earn a little breathing space with the Obama Administration by destroying a few illegal settlers' outposts. But even that has gone badly. No sooner did the army bulldozers plow under a few hilltop outposts - usually nothing more than a few trailers and shacks built on private Palestinian land - than the settlers were back with renewed zeal, along with nails and concrete to rebuild their smashed homes. As one settler, Ariyeh Davis, told the Israeli Internet news agency Ynet, "Our answer is 'expansion...
...holdings of U.S. bonds will not be debased as a result of America's rising deficits. Indeed, a question Geithner heard from a bright young Peking University student is the same one he'll hear on Tuesday, when he is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao: How safe are Chinese investments in U.S. Treasury debt...