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  • A mad March, India style: Condi to visit India

    03/12/2005 8:18:35 PM PST · by CarrotAndStick · 4 replies · 495+ views
    US News ^ | 3/21/05 | Terry Atlas
    NEW DELHI--An ardent sports fan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may be forgiving if her Indian hosts are a bit distracted when she visits this week. India is caught up in its version of March Madness, a series of passionate cricket matches pitting India against neighbor and erstwhile blood foe Pakistan. The series has been embraced as a sign of easing political tensions, with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf due to make a rare visit to India to cheer his side on. Still, Rice can be a headline grabber if, as Indian officials anticipate, she sets a date for a fall...
  • Putin's Nuclear Show Blows Up In His Face

    02/17/2004 5:59:11 PM PST · by blam · 18 replies · 345+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-18-2004 | Julius Strauss
    Putin's nuclear show blows up in his face By Julius Strauss in Moscow (Filed: 18/02/2004) Russia's biggest military exercise since the collapse of communism flopped yesterday, ruining an attempt to project Vladimir Putin as a global leader and reaffirm the country's status as a nuclear superpower. With Mr Putin and a host of military officials watching from the nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk, two intercontinental ballistic missiles went wrong during a firing from a submarine believed to be the Novomoskovsk. They were aimed at Kamchatka on the Pacific coast. A malfunctioning satellite was blamed. Putin promised that Russia will again be a...