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Since the deadly Dec. 13 attack on India’s parliament that left 14 people dead, tensions between India and Pakistan have reached a boiling point. India has reduced its embassy staff, halted rail service between the two countries and moved troops to the border in preparation for war. The military buildup on both sides has brought the two nuclear-armed nations to the brink of disaster. However, the Bush administration’s diplomatic efforts have thus far been sadly limited. The U.S. needs to act quickly to resolve the standoff, both to prevent a deadly conflict...
Congratulations to Daniel Eisenberg for a strong, balanced piece on Amtrak and its future [BUSINESS, Dec. 3]. Breaking up Amtrak only to reinvent it would be a mistake. The intercity rail system is one of the few institutions that unites our country, in a physical as well as spiritual sense, by connecting the small towns and cities of the West and South to the populous coastal and Midwest corridors. Splitting those people off from service, as some would propose, is deeply elitist, and would cast into Depression-era isolation the very people who in so many ways are the backbone...
...beyond me why America has turned its back on regional rail service. However, high-speed rail is not the only answer to this transportation problem. High-speed rail systems appear to work quite well in West European nations and Japan--smaller, highly populated countries with limited superhighways. In the U.S., high-speed rail service doesn't really apply to the needs of most large cities. In many metropolitan areas, a decent and reliable passenger rail service would help alleviate the overcrowding of the interstate highway system. This is the wrong time to kill Amtrak because of federal budget cuts. CHRIS...
...rankings. But Reyes is indeed the guy everybody in the game wants to beat. Many end up handing him wads of $100 bills. "There are just things he does on a pool table that are a little bit above everybody else," says Helfert. He can play angles and the rails. He can position the cue ball seemingly at will, he excels at the safety game?burying opponents behind balls to prevent a clean shot?and he takes, and often makes, shots others don't see or won't risk. After Houston, he won American tournaments in several different categories?nine...
Dukakis touched on another issue of local concern, the expansion of MBTA commuter rail service to Providence’s T.F. Green Airport...