Tuesday, November 23, 1999
An effective state
When L K Advani, allegedly the BJP's strategic thinker, starts talking once again about turning India into an ``effective state'', people are bound to wonder whether this is just rhetoric for the occasion (a Ficci session) or whether there is a concrete plan of action this time.
Musharraf's mousetrap
Military coups are ugly. But they look uglier when it comes to vindictiveness. After pushing out a democratic government, General Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistan Army chief, said that Pakistan needed to be cleansed.
Grain of truth
The government's anti-trust chief, Joel I. Klein of the Justice Department, and 19 state attorneys general over 76 gruelling days of testimony tried to convince US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that Microsoft had bullied rivals and smothered innovation.
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