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...Congratulations to Jyoti Thottam for a very interesting piece on India's fencing of its border with Bangladesh. Indeed, India assisted Bangladesh in its 1971 war of independence with Pakistan, partly out of strategic and historic needs, and has generously accommodated several million economic refugees and migrants from Bangladesh. I would now request the author to also research the economic hardships being caused among Bangladeshi farmers by dams being built in India on rivers flowing into Bangladesh, and see whether this is forcing poorer segments of Bangladesh's rural society to look across the border to India for a living...
With leading economists predicting that the current recession will be the longest since World War II, families across America are looking for novel strategies to maximize their earnings. Enter Megan Basham, author of “Beside Every Successful Man”, whose controversial claim is that women, by quitting their jobs and applying their skills, education, and talent to advance their husbands’ careers, can achieve greater financial security for their families than with two incomes. Marketed to business savvy career women who desire a “slower-paced, more graceful, family oriented life...
It’s that time of year—winter is staging a last stand, the United States and South Korea are playing their yearly war games, and North Korea is threatening the region. This time, though, Kim Jong-Il’s rogue state forces us to ask whether it is merely crying wolf again. With more pressing issues on its plate, the United States can not cater to North Korea’s pouting...
...attack by North Korea. The exercises are ridiculous; it’s hard to imagine swarms of American and South Korean troops storming the border in the case of a North Korean attack. Yet can anything really be discounted as ridiculous when North Korea continues to posture as if war will happen...
...possibility of conflict with North Korea is remote to nonexistent. It has fired missiles before and threatened war on many occasions. Even Kim knows that such a war would be disastrous for his nation, which barely functions economically even in peacetime. Clinton and the state department must let North Korea know that we are sick of playing the “cry wolf” game. Our military exercises will continue, and the government in Pyongyang can either grow up, or issue another statement to deaf ears. For now, North Korea has given the world no reason to take...