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...Progress toward lasting peace may be similarly restrained by Abbas' weak position. He must wrestle with the new Hamas government, which was sworn in last week--by videophone because Israel refused to let Hamas officials travel between the West Bank and Gaza. Israel refuses to talk with Hamas until the militants disarm and abandon their vow to destroy Israel. And Hamas leaders are incensed by one facet of Olmert's plan: if Hamas refuses to accept Israel, the Israelis will draw up permanent borders unilaterally. "Why should we recognize Israel," asks Aziz Dweik, Hamas' new Palestinian Assembly Speaker, "when Israel...
...credentials presented a dilemma for local leaders?their political promotion would depend in part on outdoing their predecessors, and Zhongshan didn't leave much room for improvement. So when the Yuezhong shipworks went bankrupt, it wasn't long before plans emerged to remove an eyesore, cut ribbons and make progress...
...Back to Basics Re "The New India, and the Old One" [March 13]: I concur with essayist Alex Perry that India's progress is staggering in its magnitude and its one-dimensional quality. In evolving into a nuclear power worthy of American attention, India has become somehow detached from the person in the street. In day-to-day India-with an entrenched, corrupt bureaucracy, only an intermittent supply of clean water and millions of people lacking basic health care and sanitation-the new international developments seem impossibly far removed. India requires first the basics of life and then transparency...
...Foreign brands that got in early have made rapid progress. Upscale watchmaker Tag Heuer, which has averaged 40% growth in India over the last three years, has plans to expand from 80 shops to 120 in 2006; and Jimmy Choo is looking to open 10 shoe stores in India by 2011. The first will launch in New Delhi at the end of 2007, under the terms of a distribution agreement with the New York-based Murjani Group, which also distributes the Tommy Hilfiger brand in India. It helps that more retailing locations are becoming available. Two luxury malls are being...
...initial charges. In the meantime, we continue to trust that readers will use our reports to monitor campus law-enforcement officials—not to rush to pass judgment on their peers. And we will continue to provide you with thorough accounts of this case’s progress through the courts...