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Although successive governments have shared this goal throughout the '90s, the problem in part lies in the fact that India is a democracy. China is able to liberalize its economy from the top down and its population simply has to accept the consequences, which in the short term inevitably involve hardship...
...India's problem is that it's an unrealized superpower," says Rahman. "Its policy makers believe the country has the potential to be a superpower and should be treated as such, but they also know they don't carry that kind of clout...
...Overall people are apathetic," she said. "Everything in the world is pretty much OK, so most people are kind of, 'Heh, let's keep things the same.' Until there's a problem, people don't look for solutions...
...Dudley strip in Lamont is without a doubt the best display of public nudity at Harvard. The only problem with this year's event is that too many people knew about it in advance," said bystander Melvin V. Priester '01. "It's a lot more fun when you're sitting there and you look up and suddenly it's on and you're like 'Wow, there's that girl from section standing in her skivvies... that's just wrong...
...gender- or race-discrimination cases. Now the Court says there are no federal protections against states' gender biases, either. "This is directly in line with the legacy of the Rehnquist Court, which is a return to an emphasis on states' rights," says TIME legal correspondent Alain Sanders. "The problem with that is when balancing the rights of citizens against the rights of states, this court tends to minimize the rights of citizens and maximize the rights of states." One legal point some say the Court erred on is its emphasis of the 11th Amendment over the 14th Amendment, which requires...