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...scurrilous and offensive biography written by a foreigner. Now they want to keep it off the shelves because they fear its revelations challenge the reputation and status of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India for 15 years until she was assassinated by her bodyguards in 1984. At stake is the perpetual myth of Indira Gandhi, goddess and mother of India...
...questions whether the policy of “mutually assured destruction,” which has guided American nuclear policy for so long, still applies in a world with many nuclear powers. Although the president’s overtures to Russia—who is eager to have a stake in any defense strategy lest its rusting arsenal become irrelevant—is laudable, his planned abrogation of the 1972 treaty is both alarming and provocative. An even greater worry is Bush’s unconcern for the Chinese reaction to his missile defense plans. And we doubt Bush?...
...conflict. The fact remains, however, that the Bush administration has not articulated, let alone put into action, any strategy aimed at getting the Middle East peace process back on track. Powell’s reaction was just that, a reaction. The United States has vital national security interests at stake and a peaceful, prosperous Middle East is what our foreign policy should be striving...
What's at stake for parents is far more than simply a child's school transcript or college options; it's a child's spirit. Recently, author David Brooks spent time on the campus of Princeton University getting to know the students, and he published what he learned in a searching article in the Atlantic magazine. The students were thoroughbred products of the American educational system--gifted, disciplined, driven to succeed, with a calm but consuming focus. And, Brooks found, they were curiously flattened too. There was no evidence of the wildfire energy of the college student, no evidence...
...Rival UPN spirits away hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Isn't that a stake through the heart...