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...arrests are unlikely to mollify India, however; New Delhi is demanding more evidence that Islamabad is serious about withdrawing support for militants. "They need to show us that this time it will not be a farce," says B. Raman, former head of the counterterrorism branch of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's equivalent of the CIA. "They should either deport those accused of the Mumbai attacks or allow an Indian police team to visit Pakistan and interrogate them." But the Pakistani military and intelligence services are reluctant to comply. In the past, they have used groups like Lashkar...
...extremist groups along its border with Afghanistan. That would enable these groups to step up their operations against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. It's a prospect that troubles not just the Bush Administration but also its successor. President-elect Barack Obama has said he will devote some "serious diplomatic resources" to settling the dispute over Kashmir...
...recession when your neighbor loses his job," Harry Truman once quipped. "It's a depression when you lose yours." What Reich and Morici seemed to be groping for - other than media exposure (mission accomplished!) - was a way to express that the current downturn may be a more serious phenomenon than other recessions of the post-World War II era. (See pictures of the recession...
...vision that we have is serious, time-consuming, and, in some cases, costly,” they wrote in the report, “but the measures we propose are, in our view, necessary...
...move forward, we should feel fortunate that we lost more than most universities will ever have, but we cannot let our privilege lull us into a sense of irresponsible complacency. Even at Harvard, and especially at Harvard, we need to buckle down and be serious about maximizing our available resources. If we can harness the collective talent of our campus community, we may be able to convert this crisis of ?hange into a catalyst for change...