Tuesday, October 6, 1998
Trampling on a tradition
For Indian prime ministers who double as their own foreign ministers, September is the month for grandstanding. The Non-aligned or the Commonwealth or someone gives them the small stage to do their warming-up exercises; the UN General Assembly provides the photo op.
Humbling the mighty
All Indian foreign ministers go off to annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund in Washington armed with a wish-list of reforms. Yashwant Sinha is no exception. But whereas his predecessors received a polite hearing and little more, Sinha will be talking to the partially converted.
One bright lesson from Bill
The US president holds the most powerful office in the world. But we found him wearing a wan smile in the Map Room of the White House, facing a federal grand jury. If this is not an illustration of the triumph of democracy, what is?
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