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...still live in extreme poverty. Vinod C. Dixit Ahmadabad, India I was impressed by your reporting on India's drive to become an economic superpower in the next decade. As an Indian living in the West, I know that India is still crippled by government ineptitude, graft and a weak infrastructure, but it has come a long way since it gained independence. India is not only a self-sufficient economic and nuclear power but also the world's largest democracy. India has tradition, culture, a sense of community and, best of all, values that have been passed down over thousands...
...impressed by your reporting on India's drive to become an economic superpower in the next decade. As an Indian living in the West, I know that India is still crippled by government ineptitude, graft and a weak infrastructure, but it has come a long way since gaining independence. India is not only a self-sufficient economic and nuclear power but also the world's largest democracy. India has tradition, culture, a sense of community and, best of all, values that have been passed down over thousands of years. I hope that those values are not lost in India...
...both from cancer within 16 months, created the vacuum that forced Elkann--the eldest child of Gianni Agnelli's daughter Margherita and French-Italian writer Alain Elkann--to step to the fore ahead of schedule. He did so amid a two-year corporate crisis that began in 2002 when weak management damaged brand image and forced a $3.8 billion bank bailout to stave off potential bankruptcy. "If the situation had been different, I might have had more time to ease into the job. But I was forced into the middle of a bad moment," Elkann says. "The company was being...
...largely given up on trying to negotiate for peace and security and instead is trying to establish them on its own. The strongest argument made by domestic critics of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last year was that the country's enemies would think it was weak and frightened and thus would be encouraged to strike out. Olmert's dual counterblasts are aimed at changing that impression--among those who believe it--to make the idea of attacking Israel prohibitively scary to the other side or, as the Israelis put it, to re-establish deterrence...
...there?s still no evidence that it did), that wouldn?t make it unconstitutional. So ?the claim is much weaker than the typical claim? of harming speech through retaliation, says Eugene Volokh, a constitutional law professor at UCLA law school. If the judge believes the claim is weak enough, he will throw...