Old men and the sieve
Be it Kargil or cricket, there is this peculiarly Indian tendency to confine all idea of accountability to the lower-most levels possible -- that too if it is utterly unavoidable to hold somebody accountable for something gone very wrong. That is why the outrage over the match-fixing revelations has so far remained confined to the Azhars and Jadejas, Prabhakars and Mongias and, of course, the several Guptas who seem to control the bookie mafia.



Why The New York Times opts for Gore
Upon his arrival in Washington more than twos decades ago, Mr Gore set out to master the intricacies of arms control and foreign policy. He broke with his party to support the war against Iraq in 1991.



Justice Anand to head MTNL
What makes Justice A.S. Anand qualify, you may well ask, for the job of heading the country's biggest telecom services provider, the public sector MTNL. Apart from the fact that he's never run a telecom firm in his life, he is, after all, the country's chief justice.



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