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...reputation that has turned the city into India's fastest-growing metropolis. The attacks on women are a symbolic rejection of the open-minded, modern India that they all want to be part of. "On the one hand, India is developing; on the other hand you're seeing a U-turn," says Jai Pais, a 21-year-old intern at the hotel. "You're going backward...
Interviews with three of the police officers who were there reveal the last moments of Qasab's mission. Khan tried to make a U-turn but bumped into a concrete median. The car stopped, and the officers ran toward it. Khan started shooting from the driver's seat and was killed by police fire. Qasab first put up his hands as if to surrender, but when police officers opened the car door, he leaped out and dropped with his back to the ground, guns blazing. An unarmed assistant subinspector, Tukaram Ombale, grabbed the barrel of Qasab...
...stimulus package on the cratering American economy? Actually, the President used a version of the line multiple times during his first week in office - a week that, rather than offering the catharsis of a bright new American morning, summoned the groaning image of a supertanker attempting a U-turn in a tiny Arctic bay. The weather in Washington was cold and cloudy. The President seemed overcast as well, stowing his megawatt smile as he acknowledged one of the more depressing days in U.S. economic history - the day that major companies laid off more than 75,000 employees. I barely...
...Crawl” and the heavily distorted and musically simple “Sex on Fire.” Lead singer Caleb’s strained southern drawl is still (mostly) present throughout, and there are moments where the album looks as though it’s making a u-turn back to true Kings of Leon form. Yet something’s still off. It all sounds a bit too grandiose and cleaned up. “Only by the Night” is still a far cry from awful, though. Most of the songs are pleasant enough; it?...
...seemed to be returning to normal and was set to take some pressure off prices, she said. "We do not think that the record levels reached in recent months are likely to persist," she said. "There is nothing in the current situation that shows we should make a U-turn...