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...readers fascinated with the South Asian culture, this read is vastly more enjoyable than the standard history text. Chaudhuri demystifies Indian exoticisms, transporting us into his rag-tag world where everything revolves around the late afternoon nap. This novel's evocative imagery is on par with Indian director Saityjit Rays' films in de-cloaking the mysterious world of the subcontinent...
...restoration project and the hefty $4 million price tag present us with some difficult issues. Mainly, can we be absolutely certain that the money is not needed elsewhere? It may be understandable that Harvard would like to celebrate its successful five-year capital campaign, and perhaps the reconstruction of the tower would be a powerful symbol of the campaign's success...
...restoration project and the hefty $4 million price tag present us with some difficult issues. Mainly, can we be absolutely certain that the money is not needed elsewhere? It may be understandable that Harvard would like to celebrate its successful five-year capital campaign, and perhaps the reconstruction of the tower would be a powerful symbol of the campaign's success...
Apparently, in a White House with its eyes firmly fixed on the 2000 election, the idea of co-opting such a Republican hobbyhorse, especially one likely to win congressional approval, was just too delicious. America's weapons manufacturers love the system and its total $11 billion price tag, and will lobby strongly for it. But in Russia the prospect of another era of costly weapons building, similar to the one that helped bust the former Soviet Union, is driving the leadership wild. Washington's planned system could violate the venerable 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, the bedrock on which all subsequent...
...sudden metamorphosis into Nuke Skywalker, he may want to recall the last time he made such a bold declaration on missile defense. Before his 1996 re-election, he lambasted a G.O.P. proposal to build "a costly missile-defense system that could be obsolete tomorrow." He charged that the price tag was too high and the threat too murky. "It would violate the arms-control agreements that we have made, and these agreements make us more secure," he declared. "That is the wrong way to defend America." That may still be true, but the President's amazing about-face has fundamentally...