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...like London’s Hot Chip and Melbourne’s Cut Copy. Their music is faster, deeper, and more likely to rattle you than anything my mother might have heard as Studio 54 was closing. Just as disco was never really the same as Disco, this new wave should not be considered a Disco revival. Rather, it is a new willingness to embrace duality and nuance. Just because a song is coquettish or vampy, doesn’t preclude it from coming from a serious or earnest place. Songs can offer a meaningful perspective on getting older...
...Technologies have varied, with initial plans favoring nuclear-powered lasers and more recent variants using interceptor missiles. Its initial proposal stirred rancor, but the Defense Department and its agencies have funded ballistic missile defense projects ever since the Reagan administration, sinking at least $30.7 billion into the most recent wave...
...Shiv Sena, an influential Hindu-nationalist party in Mumbai, have a reputation for unleashing thuggery as standard political practice and, until last week, the specter of "Hindu terror" had been in national headlines following explicit threats by nationalist leaders and revelations that Hindu extremists had been behind a wave of terrorist attacks initially blamed on Muslims. "What would they have done had they been in power [during last week's attacks]?" asks MP Deora. The BJP reaction, he suspects, could have fanned religious extremism and deepened inter-communal hostility in the country, further imperiling security...
...continuing wave of taxi strikes underlines a danger that the more upfront coverage of controversial issues carries with it: the danger of copycat incidents in other parts of the country. With the police detaining or jailing leaders of some of the strikes, those involved are understandably reluctant to discuss their motivations. But many observers believe that there is little doubt the lengthy coverage of the strikes in the official media was seen as a form of legitimization by later strikers. "There have been taxi-driver strikes occasionally in the past a few years, but never so many in such...
Soon after terrorists struck Mumbai on Wednesday, Israeil Defense Minister Ehud Barak offered to send help to India. "The attacks are part of a global wave of terror, which Israel is quite familiar with," Barak said. But India declined the assistance. Some Israeli officials voiced criticism over the way that Indian forces immediately began firing at the gunmen, rather than gathering intelligence on their adversary, or attempting to enter into negotiations with them first. Meanwhile, in India, rumors circulated that the Israelis had indeed been part of the rescue operation, a notion that may have been kick-started...