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...would be a mistake, however, to interpret the financial world's sanguine reaction to such a serious attack on India's financial and commercial capital as a sign of great hope for India's future. Business comes to India simply because it can't ignore a billion-strong consumer market with an economy growing at 7% a year even in a global recession. But investors have come to realize, as anyone who lives in India has, that the rising superpower once touted at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as "Incredible India" has been oversold. Some of its strengths...
...million saved by the freeze constitute one sizeable step out of the woods. It could have been much worse.The catch is that it probably will be. Two hundred minus 10 leaves $190 million that FAS has not yet decided how to cut. As students, our natural reaction is likely to include telling the administration to preserve undergraduate life at all costs. But we do not—and we students should not—take this tack. FAS will almost certainly cut something cherished: Pain is part of the nature of budget cuts. Instead, students should prepare to sacrifice...
...this wasn't our 9/11, and we've learned since then that there's a second reaction to terrorism. One recognizes, wearily but maturely, that killing every terrorist we can lay our hands on isn't the same as killing their ideology. The jihadist's ideology is barbaric, violent and senseless. But that isn't what will wipe it out. Ideas can't be wiped out with force, much less killed. There has to be a good reason for people to give them up. (See pictures of Two Days of Terror in Mumbai...
...terror" had been in national headlines following explicit threats by nationalist leaders and revelations that Hindu extremists had been behind a wave of terrorist attacks initially blamed on Muslims. "What would they have done had they been in power [during last week's attacks]?" asks MP Deora. The BJP reaction, he suspects, could have fanned religious extremism and deepened inter-communal hostility in the country, further imperiling security...
...Most Pakistanis reacted with horror to news of the Mumbai killing spree starting Wednesday, having lived through equally devastating attacks on their own soil. But that initial sympathy quickly gave way to hostility as the focus of blame landed on Pakistan - a knee-jerk first reaction, rather than one based on any solid evidence. "It is a tragic incident, and we also felt bad about it as Pakistan is going through the same problem," says Abdur Rashid, a 67-year-old retired government servant in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. "But it was really unfortunate to see that even before the operation...