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...biggest news from their patch for years. All summer, my father cycles to his office at the Ministry of Justice in the sumptuous Darul Aman Palace. He's there to help the ministry frame a written legal code from tribal law, but as the summer wears on, the work dries up. The ex-minister remains in jail. Soviet advisers hustle through the hallways. Colleagues politely cancel meetings. My parents remain calm, hoping that the new regime might tackle the poverty, illiteracy and sexism they see blighting Afghanistan. "Perhaps," says my mother, "a good dose of socialism is just what this...
Three childhood memories, three moments in modern Islamic history, all hanging on the childish belief that foreign-born solutions will work for the region. The West has spent decades hoping for and plotting a neat trajectory of Middle Eastern modernization. But whether vested in peace treaties or the Shah's imported pomp, those plans have never quite worked out. Not a SOFA agreement, not the Shah's speechifying about modernization, not a party in desert tents stocked with marble baths and champagne could sustain Jimmy Carter's mirage of an Iran that was "an island of security in a troubled...
...roots. That makes Fabindia an early beneficiary of the figure upon whom many regional and international economic hopes are now being pinned: the Indian consumer. But when Bissell looks into India's future, he is troubled. "For those of us at the top of the dungheap, the system is working absolutely brilliantly," he says. For everyone else, corruption and the lack of basic public services like water, electricity and education threaten to undo a decade of growth. In a 247-page polemic, Making India Work, Bissell lays out those problems in devastating detail and suggests ways to fix them...
...Making India Work lays out what he hopes will be a blueprint for action: radically downsizing the national bureaucracy; giving substantive powers to elected neighborhood councils; creating a results-based, incentivized school system under the eye of a "standards authority." A self-described policy wonk, Bissell is clearly more interested in the details of governance than in big ideas (the subject of several recent books by Indian CEOs). "Let's go into the trenches," he says, with the air of the classic patrician philanthropist, "and see what needs to be done." (See pictures of India's health care crisis...
...National Action Party family, lashed out in a series of interviews this week that the omnipotent Sinaloa cartel of his native state has not been targeted. "In some places they have hit the gangsters. But in my state, everyone can see that the bad guys are being allowed to work," he told TIME. "There is a mafia cabal of criminals, politicians and businessmen and it has simply not been touched." Much of the bloodshed in Mexico is blamed on the efforts of this Sinaloa cartel to expand into new territories. Party leaders and officials swiftly hit back, saying that...