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...democracy, those hardest hit by the impact of liberalization measures can use the democratic process to fight back," says Rahman. "So when it comes to India opening up its markets, it's inevitably one step forward, two steps back. And that slow progress creates caution on both sides of the U.S.-India relationship." A pity, it would seem, because apart from being a vibrant democracy, India has been culturally integrated with the West for as long as Englishmen have been drinking tea, wearing khaki, playing polo and using words such as "pajama," "pundit" and "pariah" (all of which were imported...
Junior Victoria G. Fox, a Wellesley student spending a semester at Harvard, says that Harvard has all the information that students could ever need--the difficulty is in putting that information to use...
...best, Swift's actions and responses are those of an elected official giddy with the power and perks of office. At worst, they show a woman totally out of touch with her constituents who is not only unwilling to admit her wrongdoing but also eager to use the working mother excuse. That doesn't sit well with those working mothers who don't have Swift's advantages of a stay-at-home husband and flexible working hours--never mind those single mothers on welfare who have suffered particularly under this administration. Swift also does a disservice to those government officials...
...enormously popular on Capitol Hill, and unlikely to be scaled back in an election year no matter how poor its report card. The irony is that long-range missiles aren?t exactly the preeminent threat facing the U.S. in the near future. "The bad guys are more likely to use a Piper Cub to deliver a weapon of mass destruction than a long-range missile, which always has a return address," says Thompson. "If they did use a missile they?re more likely to fire it at short range from a cargo ship so nearby that this system couldn...
...from the 1930s is a charming, if mechanically obsolete, relic. On the other hand, a technology developed 70 years ago to establish levels of tar and nicotine in cigarettes is still in use in federal laboratories - and determines the ingredient labels on today's cigarettes. And as a report in this week's issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute contends, that creaky cigarette "smoking machine" may be responsible for the dissemination of serious consumer misinformation. Why do smokers still believe they are "healthier" when they smoke Marlboro Lights as opposed to Reds? Because the Federal Trade Commission...