News on 4.17.04
George Bush makes his case Something of a quagmire at home Apr 15th 2004 | WASHINGTON, DC From The Economist print edition EPA The president's position is not as bad as it first appearsoldest clichi in the book to stay the course (whatever it is). Mr Bush did reasonably well. All the same, the aim of the press conference, only the third of his presidency and the first of any kind this year, was damage limitation. It took place at a time when he has been buffeted by an outbreak of...
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The Caribbean and Taiwan Easy money Apr 7th 2004 | TRINIDAD From The Economist print edition Communist money pays off capitalist debt ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, Dominica's 31-year-old prime minister, has plenty of reasons to be cheerful. Three months into office, he scored a landslide win in a by-election on April 5th. And last week, China promised him $122m in return for revoking his country's recognition of Taiwan. The switch will bring in more than a third of his government's normal revenue,...
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Israel and Palestine Out of Gaza Apr 15th 2004 From The Economist print edition Has George Bush betrayed Palestine by his concessions to Ariel Sharon? Reuters A GREAT wail of indignation from the Arab world greeted George Bush's decision this week to endorse Ariel Sharon's plan to evacuate all of the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. Of course a withdrawal is good, say the Palestinians, but at what price? The Israeli prime minister's transparent intention is to hold on all the more...
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Linux on desktop PCs More balls through Windows Apr 15th 2004 | SAN FRANCISCO From The Economist print edition Is Microsoft finally about to face real competition in desktop-computer software? Get article background FOR years, hope has ebbed and flowed among many in the computer business that Linux, a freely available computer operating system which uses a penguin as its symbol, would become a viable alternative to Microsoft's Windows, the near universal standard for the world's...
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India's election The greatest show on earth Apr 15th 2004 | DELHI AND LUCKNOW From The Economist print edition AP A contest less of policies than of opportunistic alliances Get article background says Pramod Mahajan, a strategist with India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of the resounding victory he expects in the general election that begins on April 20th. Just what a spin doctor might be expected to say, but opinion polls and analysts all agree that the BJP is likely to emerge...
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AIDS in India Abating, or exploding? Apr 15th 2004 | CHENNAI From The Economist print edition Katz India's HIV epidemic is at a critical stage. If it is not brought under control soon, it may grow to African proportions Get article background INDIA'S first cases of HIV infection occurred among prostitutes in Chennai back in 1986, when the city was still known as Madras. That was two years after HIV was first reported in Thailand, where a large proportion of men habitually used...
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Christians and Jews Russian table talk Apr 7th 2004 From The Economist print edition Spiritual divisions in a good Jewish family LEV RAZGON, a chronicler of the Soviet prison camps, was a humanist with no formal faith but a deep belief in human rights, such as freedom of conscience. Younger members of his extended family have taken full advantage of those freedoms. The writer's nephew, Alexander Razgon, is a devout Jew who has settled in Israel; Alexander's brother Leonid, like a small...
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Paying for the old Work, work, work Mar 25th 2004 From The Economist print edition Time to panic AP OLD age, said Maurice Chevalier, the dapper French crooner , For most of the elderly in rich countries, it is better than ever before. The triumph of the welfare state on both sides of the Atlantic is that the old are now no poorer than the young. Indeed in some countries, such as Germany, old people are typically better off, counting the value of all they receive from government, than...
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The murder that sparked the genocide Who shot down the presidents' plane? Mar 25th 2004 From The Economist print edition An unresolved mystery AFP Get article background EVEN now, nobody knows who lit the fuse. On April 6th 1994, two missiles struck a plane carrying Rwanda's Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, and his Burundian counterpart, killing all aboard. Within hours, the genocide had begun. The Hutu fanatics who seized power blamed the Tutsi rebels of the RPF for the...
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