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...service, they sell their votes to deceiving, self-serving corrupt criminals. Secondly, India desperately needs a two-party system. Our endless number of regional and so-called national parties only seek to share power and once their rule is assured, are rarely made accountable to their principles. As a result, India seems more a loose confederation of bickering, cynical tribes than a functioning political collective. Lieut. Colonel Onkar Chopra (ret.), Ferozepur, India...
...Research on International Economic Relations, a New Delhi-based think tank. But over the years it grew into a monster, gaining layer upon layer of intermediaries, none of whom added any value to the fruits and vegetables they traded even as they added on their own margins. The result: a grossly inefficient system in which farmers are divorced from market feedback and often must wait months to be paid. Many farmers routinely go into debt to the very traders who buy their produce and then sell them seeds and fertilizers for the next crop. Customers, meantime, had little choice...
...claim area, luggage maker Samsonite seems to have come up with the perfect solution: an eight-piece customized line of luggage called Black Label Couture. "When Samsonite started in 1910, travel was a luxury only accessible to a select few," says Samsonite's creative director, Quentin Mackay. "As a result, luggage was a luxurious purchase. In those days we offered a service of customization...
When this works, it can be impressive. The Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 were 13 years in the making (eight of them fairly quiet years as a result of the Reagan Administration's opposition to the bill). When Dingell at last brought the legislation to a vote, however, the amendments passed almost unanimously. But can the strategy work in today's more evenly--and bitterly--divided House...
...Bush noted, international attempts to pressure the Sudanese government have long foundered on Bashir's intransigence. "President Bashir's actions over the past few weeks follow a long pattern of promising cooperation while finding new methods for obstruction," the President said. "The result is that the dire security situation on the ground in Darfur has not changed." The question is how sanctions by the U.S. government against a few Sudanese companies with whom America already does no business will persuade Bashir to relent...