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...worth remembering, though, that India has overcome this culture before. When a few bureaucrats and economists pushed through the 1991 economic reforms, no one thought the "license Raj" would ever fall. At the time, the political decisions behind the reforms were unpopular, and its possibilities were not yet apparent. A few prominent businessmen formed a group - the Bombay Club - to oppose the reforms, surely unaware that they would one day be among their biggest beneficiaries. As incomplete as those reforms have been, they have brought India into its new place in the world. The attacks were an acknowledgement of that...
...ready to fight back at the ballot box. D'Arcy Kemnitz, executive director of the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, told TIME that's a fight gays and lesbians are willing to have. After all, she says, courts have traditionally stood up for minority rights, no matter how unpopular...
...largely symbolic opposition, as Yasser Arafat did in the Palestinian elections of 1996. Although there was an opposition candidate, the main opposition - Hamas - stayed out of the race. So, too, would the Taliban, and the political contest would be between voting and boycotting an election associated with an increasingly unpopular foreign military presence. On the other hand, a renewed Western focus on creating a more viable Afghan government as the anchor for its counterinsurgency strategy may yet see other candidates step forward to challenge Karzai. But more important than the election will be the efforts, already underway, to negotiate...
...Given the twin burdens he bore of a dismally unpopular incumbent Republican President and an already staggering economy that fell off a cliff in October, it is possible that McCain never had a chance. For all his cred as a maverick, McCain built that reputation on issues like tobacco, campaign finance, pork-barrel spending, immigration and torture, all of which were peripheral to the general-election debate. Meanwhile, on problems that worried voters most - the economy, health care, jobs - neither McCain's record in the past nor his proposals for the future were distinguishable from the standard Republican fare promoted...
...White House-directed letter supporting the corporate-welfare farm bill of 2002. But as Indiana's governor, he's gotten to do things his own way, privatizing roads, expanding health coverage, even supporting tax increases to get his state's fiscal house in order. His tough-love measures were unpopular for a while, but after he cruised to re-election while Obama won his state, he's got to be part of the conversation about future Republican leaders - especially as he's a former Reagan aide and drug-company executive who cares about policy and knows what he's doing...