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...recent moderation on the part of the B.J.P., coupled with the decline of the secular Congress Party, has helped it rocket to prominence. In 1984 the party held just two seats in India's lower house of Parliament; by 1991 it had 119. Today it holds 179 seats out of 545 and took power by cobbling together a coalition of socialists, nationalists and regional parties with vastly different agendas...
Hitting a bullet with a bullet is never easy, but when you?ve spent $15 billion trying, you might expect better than a 0-5 success rate. The military today recorded the fifth consecutive miss in testing of the costly THAAD anti-missile system. A booster rocket failure resulted in the Lockheed-built Theater High Altitude Area Defense missile's failing to intercept a Hera test missile...
...running high-tech experiments with your money? One of the ideas behind these new superbanks is that with large customer bases they will be able to offer infinitely complex (and incredibly efficient) wealth accounts to the average investor. But taking complex finance out of the hands of Wall Street rocket scientists and putting it into the hands of consumers or even inexperienced bankers is hardly a riskless activity. "Banks have been making less and less money from traditional lines of business," says Douglas Gale, an economics professor at New York University who is considered a leading thinker about next-generation...
Here is a suspense thriller cast as a Socratic conversation. By Hollywood's pulse, the film may amble, but this is a token of its respect for each speaker's beliefs, its refusal to sentimentalize matters of life or death. Let the rest of the movie world ride a rocket to excess; Kiarostami will find a quiet place and listen to a man's heart right until it stops beating. And then he will listen some more...
...addition, each S&D team member is equipped with two large Nerf guns. The team says the Super Maxx 1500, with a rotating bullet chamber, is a particularly popular model. One member of the team has evenbeen known to strap a Nerf rocket launcher,accurate up to 100 feet, to his belt...