The near abroad
Never has Prime Minister Vajpayee been more categorical about his perception of Pakistan than he was on Monday. While accusing the country's largest neighbour of having been directly responsible for the recent hijack of flight IC 814.



Happily in the market
The highest guru of left-liberal historians, also known as the last Marxist with functioning brain cells, Eric Hobsbawm, is predictably pessimistic in his millennial forecast.



On a roll again
The massive post-Y2K rally on the world's stock exchanges disproves one of the most popular adages of the millennium. It appears that you can indeed fool all of the people all of the time.



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