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...world has its own salt story." Those stories took Kurlansky around the world "more than once" in his three years of writing his book. Kurlansky says that quest for salt has shaped the history of civilization. Salt as an inexpensive commodity, he says, is a "big historic shift" that took taken place in the last century...
Vajpayee doesn't much believe it, though. He suspects the crackdown Musharraf has begun on the terrorists will prove merely cosmetic. So he too has made a sharp shift, throwing off his almost avuncular detachment to launch a scary game of military brinkmanship. Pride and domestic politics lie behind that stroke; his party is facing an important state election, and the hard line he has adopted may help at the polls. But Vajpayee also owns a taste for boldness that he has demonstrated before. In 1998 he was the Prime Minister who ordered the atom-bomb tests that made India...
...seems that the United States is progressing to a currency with a more futuristic design, and there are some that support this shift. My avant-garde, immensely pro-euro German blockmate spares no effort in explaining the benefits of such a currency design: It’s harder to counterfeit, has a democratizing effect, and looks to the future, not the past. And I agree that this all makes perfect sense...
...begun to mount on the Israeli leader to lift his siege of Palestinian areas, freeze settlement activities and move towards renewed negotiations - a scenario anathema to Sharon and his own political base. Now, with the help of some Palestinian arms smugglers and Hamas insurgents, he has managed to nimbly shift the onus back on to Arafat...
...both fugitive leaders and against pockets of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, which substantially increases the risk of American combat casualties. But casualties have been so few that there's no danger of an erosion of public support for the effort. And the U.S. military has moved nimbly to shift public expectations away from the idea that American forces are hunting fugitives - the mission is being firmly framed in terms of eliminating pockets of resistance and preventing al Qaeda regrouping...