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...Luxury tech has traditionally been limited to big-ticket items--there's a small but substantial market for $25,000 TVs, for instance, and true audiophiles can drop more than $100,000 on a speaker setup. With Sony's new Qualia line, that high-end sensibility comes to the usually mass-market world of personal electronics...
...Gandhi name may be in the symbolic language of Indian political advertising, the defeat of the Hindu-nationalist government of Atal Behari Vajpayee's BJP had a lot more to do with the economy. By many measures, that's a rising star, with growth rates and a booming tech sector that make it the toast of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Hence Vajpayee's decision to call an early election, advised by his handlers that he would surf the crest of the economic good times his liberalization policies had produced. "India is shining" was the slogan chosen...
...Unfortunately for the BJP, the refracted glow of the high-tech palaces of Bangalore and Hyderabad never reached the rural villages and urban slums where 80 percent of the population continues to live in grinding poverty. The rewards of globalization and India's emergence as a high-tech powerhouse have been enjoyed only by a tiny percentage of Indians. As a Goldman Sachs report recently noted, India is home to one third of the world's software engineers and one quarter of its undernourished population. And for the impoverished majority, the message of a "Shining India" rang hollow, at best...
...strongest evidence that this was a rebellion against incumbents rather than an endorsement of the Congress Party's own policies came in the state of Karnataka, whose capital Bangalore is considered the epicenter of India's high-tech boom. There, the BJP won handsomely - the incumbent, of course, was a Congress man. Congress also lost its control of Kerala province, not to the BJP but to the Communists. Indeed, the parties of the socialist Left made their best showing in more than a decade...
...historian Martin Van Creveld has written extensively on the corrosive effect on Israeli society of maintaining its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Citing the debilitating effect of Afghanistan on the Soviet Union and of Vietnam on the U.S., he argues that an occupation pits a sophisticated high-tech army not against an equivalent foe, but against lightly-armed insurgents hard to distinguish from the civilian population. "As Israel's own history clearly shows, fighting a stronger opponent will cause a society to unite," he writes, "but combating a weaker one will cause it to split and disintegrate...