Friday, January 1, 1999
Speak, madam, speak
Pollsters and pundits have begun talking in awed tones of the emergence of Sonia Gandhi as the single most important factor that is likely to determine the course of 1999. Even if one accepts the proposition, one is at a huge disadvantage analysing it because the basic facts cogent analysis demands are hard to come by.
Trendy tears and natty NGOs
Just like the people Henry Kissinger called the foreign policy community needs an occasional crisis to stay in the business of jet-setting with government grants, the AIDS community, too, requires horror stories to grab those elusive column inches in this age of cause fatigue.
Euro arrives
The euro equals one Ecu (a basket of participating Euroland currencies and the pound, used to calculate EU budgets). When the Euro comes into existence at 00.00 hrs on January 1, 1999, it will be traded at the equivalent value of the Ecu at that moment.
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