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...endowment. It was, all told, an eloquent and well-argued speech, drawing a clever equivalence between the strength of our ledger books and the munificence of our deeds. But in choosing to dedicate her speech to warding off the specter of taxation, President Faust betrayed the tacit terror with which Harvard meets the prospect of the government meddling in our treasury. Unfortunately, that is a terror we must overcome...
...External intelligence gathering is the responsibility of the Research and Analysis wing (R&AW), India's equivalent of the CIA. But operations by Pakistan-based terror groups inside India involve some overlap in responsibility with the IB. Coordination among India's more than 12 intelligence agencies, and between the intelligence establishment and other security services, has often been poor. "Take the case of the National Technical Research Organization, which was carved out of the R&AW," says Wilson John, senior fellow at the New Delhi-based think tank Observer Research Foundation and author of Karachi: A Terror Capital...
...Following the Mumbai attacks, the government announced that it would create a federal investigative agency to improve coordination among intelligence agencies and between them and the various state police forces. Tougher terror legislation is also being framed to expand the tools available to the security agencies. John says there have been improvements in civilian and military coordination and that an informal system of tagging threats has been introduced since Mumbai. "But these are not institutionalized yet," he says...
...intelligence and security capability is woefully lacking in proportion to the scale of the threat it faces, and to its status as an emerging economic superpower that is under constant jihadist threat. "We cannot afford to be a tin-pot operation with no capacity to prevent and respond to terror, and bring terrorists to book," says Sahni. "That will not be the kind of country where people would like to invest." And the Mumbai massacre has provoked millions of Indians to demand that the government do a better job of protecting them. So, even if political leaders are inclined...
...pictures of terror in Mumbai...