Monday, February 15, 1999
Bihar's wasted years
Nine years ago when Laloo Prasad Yadav used Samata Party leader Raghunath Jha in a Chanakya-like manner to humble his rival Ram Sundar Das and become Chief Minister, he cast himself in the mould of Chandragupta, whose empire comprised a greater part of modern-day India.
Don't puncture this bus
Fifty years of suspicion doesn't evaporate like the morning dew. Sometimes a perceived slight or a word spoken out of turn could stoke old animosities and even derail the current process of normalising relations between India and Pakistan.
America pays its Bill
The verdict was delivered, and the Chief Justice of the United States, William Rehnquist, with a golden gavel presented to him by the Senate, was ushered out of the solemn hall of history. He went back 'wiser'.
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