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...economy on track. In exchange, New Delhi agrees to put its civilian nuclear program under international safeguards. Its nuclear weapons program, meanwhile, is allowed to continue unimpeded, though India has agreed to work with the U.S. towards an international fissile material cut-off treaty. It's a foreign policy triumph that wins India a seat at the nuclear high table while allowing it to refrain from signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The U.S., in return, gets brownie points for bringing two-thirds of India's reactors under IAEA safeguards and, more importantly, forges closer ties with a country...
...Freshman in 1925 set up the basic conflict of nerd vs. jock. The athlete was seen as stuck-up, taking adulation as his due, knowing "you gotta be a football hero to win the love of a beautiful girl." So virtually every high school or college comedy dramatized the triumph of the outsider against the sportsman establishment. In 1989, Heathers lifted that vengefulness to a tragicomic delirium...
...What may be most revealing about the moment is that on the 60th anniversary of India's independence, many see Gandhi's sacrifice in pursuit of communal harmony as more moving than the triumph of expelling the British. Poverty and communal tensions still trouble India, and cloud its future. As the country's economy booms, hundreds of millions like those gathered around Gandhi's humble dwelling are on the outside looking in. It's reported that on August 15, 1947, West Bengal's newly appointed administrators came to the Mahatma in Beliaghata to seek his blessings. He responded ominously. "Today...
...This was a triumph of sensible men working very, very hard to get a good understanding of how this process works and determined, despite the risks, to get it out into the public," says Brian Jenkins, a veteran counterterrorism expert at the RAND Corporation who was also a consultant on the report...
...Rove didn't seem like such a genius then - and even less so after Jim Jeffords quit the Republican Party in mid-2001, thereby swinging control of the Senate back to the Democrats. But then came 9/11, and in the fall of 2002, Rove helped engineer a stunning political triumph when, for only the second time in history, Republicans picked up seats in both the House and the Senate in the first mid-term of a presidency. Two years later, Bush won reelection - and this time, the popular vote - and still more gains for the G.O.P. in Congress, another historic...