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...former Faculty of Arts and Sciences official said he would have “hit the roof” had the controversy taken place while he was involved in the administration. “I would have encouraged retreat. We were getting bad press...
...touted as a step towards fair and representative self-rule in the long-troubled region?the Indian Prime Minister asserted that the process proved his commitment to Kashmiri sovereignty and, despite claims to the contrary from local residents, support for Indian stewardship. Meanwhile, Musharraf, forced by the U.S. to retreat from supporting an insurgency movement in Kashmir, discovered that the anger of Pakistan's domestic jihadis is a destructive force that won't be contained, only fatally redirected into murderous attacks on his home soil and possibly, suicide strikes in the Indian heartland. "The temple attack was a typical...
...worry that the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman has moved too slowly to slay the dragon they hear stirring: deflation. The term describes an economic slough of despond in which capacity exceeds demand, inflation drops below 0%, companies sit on their cash rather than investing it, prices fall and wages retreat. Workers paid low wages in inflationary times find their debt harder to repay if they get a further cut-a terrible prospect in this period of record credit-card bills. Deflation has devastated Japan since its 1980s bubble burst. "But you don't need to be Japanese to worry about...
...Joseph is Chloé's protector and, if he were only old enough to realize it, her lover, with all the devotion and myopia true love entails. Harrowing and delicate, this French film transcends case history to become a work of seamless art and broken heart. And for a retreat into luminous, ageless film craft, queue now for Patrice Leconte's L'homme du train, a bittersweet fable about a chatty old schoolteacher (Jean Rochefort) who invites a mysterious gunman (Johnny Hallyday) to stay in his decaying chateau. It's rare to see a film so at ease with...
...President Putin harbors a deep, visceral dislike of Georgia's President Eduard Shevardnadze. Russian leaders blame him for his key role - while serving as Gorbachev's foreign minister in the late 1980s - in the breakup of the Soviet Union, its retreat from Eastern Europe, and Georgia's move into the NATO orbit. Russians feel that control over Georgia is their birthright and also a vital component of their own security...