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...also been able to improve services. For example, in 2006 IR began offering special express trains on certain routes such as the run between New Delhi and Agra, home of the Taj Mahal. Tourists making day trips to India's most popular tourist attraction now can book online and sit in comfortable seats during a trip that takes less than two hours instead of almost three. Even on longer, slower trips the catering, which is now outsourced, has improved...
...with an understanding with the media not to broadcast his whereabouts, the risk in doing so was manageable," said the General. Dannatt and advisers on the ground now consider that risk is unacceptable. "I would never want to put someone else's life in danger when they have to sit next to a bullet magnet," said Harry in an interview recorded in Afghanistan and only released after his whereabouts were revealed...
...embarked on a career in the British army proclaiming his intention to be treated just like any other soldier - and demonstrating a noticeable flair for the vernacular of the common man. "There's no way I'm going to put myself through [the military academy] Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country," he said in a 2006 interview. He added: "I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It's the way I am. I love...
Perhaps it’s difficult to break a habit after 16 years of perennial candidacy, but if Nader truly cares about the future of “ballot access” and third-party presidential bids, he might do well to sit this...
...report does not speculate on the implications of its data. But Lugo suggests, "What it says is that this marketplace is highly competitive and that no one can sit on their laurels, because another group out there will make [its tenets] available" for potential converts to try out. While this dynamic "may be partly responsible for the religious vitality of the American people," he says, "it also suggests that there is an institutional loosening of ties," with less individual commitment to a given faith or denomination...