Wednesday, August 26, 1998
The Tomahawk tutorial
Around the time the Cold War was just about to be won, and the Soviet "Evil Empire" was counting its last moments, the western media added a new expression to journalese. "Afghanistanism" underlined the peaking of the boredom index with the dirty little war that the two superpowers fought in Afghanistan. The unanimity within the western media on this was total.
Sex and Sudan: An American story
Bill Clinton's sex life is his own business. Maybe it involves his wife, and perhaps their God. But certainly not the lesser God of the poor, starved, emaciated Sudan.
Where do the RIBs go?
The State Bank of India might have won the World Cup judging by the mood at its headquarters. There is plenty to crow about in the collections under the Resurgent India Bond. By any reckoning, $3.5 to $4 billion is a huge haul, the equivalent of one-seventh of India's foreign exchange reserves, the makings of a rich infrastructure fund the likes of which no Finance Minister has seen yet.
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