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It is not easy to write fiction inspired by current events, especially if those events involve politics. The stage is too grand, the spotlight too bright. Our public life already is ridiculously flagrant, far too obvious and overwrought for good fiction. And so, all too often, political novels descend from...
India's government has been swift to offer help. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the floods "a national calamity" and ordered that the state of Bihar get nearly $230 million in aid and 125,000 tons of food. But Bihar's Kumar, who took office in 2005 with a mandate...
If Obama wins, scenario No. 2 becomes a live option. Democrats have a history of overreaching when they win huge majorities. Franklin Roosevelt did so after his re-election landslide in 1936; so did Lyndon Johnson after 1964. Obama could as well. With big majorities in the House and Senate...
Benedict, himself one of the top theologians of the modern era, was a student of Newman's writings. Knowing this, former Prime Minister Tony Blair brought three photographs of Newman to Benedict as a gift on his last visit to the Vatican, just months before announcing that he - like the...
Score one for South Korean realism. Christopher Hill's deputy, Sung Kim, had been in Beijing earlier this month for talks with the North about the verification process, but according to a State Department spokesman, as of Aug. 25 there was still no deal. One of Seoul's top North...