Clinton's star wars
Political leaders, driven by the need to shape their places in history, can be as dangerous as those driven by ideology. President Bill Clinton would like one of his last acts before he leaves office at the end of this year to be approval of the deployment of a US anti-missile missile system.



Read the rains right
Weather trends in the next two days are known with a fair degree of accuracy to the farmer from the radio and the vernacular newspapers. These are discussed in the chaupal and decisions made on operations.



Karunanidhi's non-solution
The `solution' suggested by M. Karunanidhi to Sri Lanka's ethnic problem is a hard riddle to solve. What exactly does the Tamil Nadu CM mean by a Czechoslovakia-type answer to the issue that the island nation has thus far found intractable?



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