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Worst in history
"By the time the history of this administration is written, we will all be dead." President George Bush often makes statements of this sort to show that he does not care about how his record in office will come to be viewed in the future. Mr. ...

Is Federer the greatest?
Roger Federer demonstrated that his feet were not of clay when he ended, in the final of the Hamburg Masters, Rafael Nadal's record-breaking run of 81 successive victories on the surface. The upset, which comes at a time the French Open is about ...

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STATECRAFT
A party's need for renewal and three options
By Harish Khare

Will its recent electoral debacle in Uttar Pradesh prod the Congress establishment to take a hard look within? As an all-India party, the Congress has an obligation to produce systemic equanimity.

News Analysis

Farming — it's what they do
By P. Sainath

The agrarian crisis has seen over a lakh of women farmers lose their husbands. But survivors like Kalavati Bandurkar — with seven daughters — still run their farms.

Bush may turn to U.N. in search for Iraq solution
By Simon Tisdall

If the troop surge fails, the strategy is to involve other nations under the United Nations umbrella.

The six-day war Israel won is still going on
By Jonathan Freedland

Victory in 1967 was as much curse as blessing. It paved the way for 40 years of mortal, political, and moral disaster.

Corrections and Clarifications
A report "Panel on senior citizen health insurance" ("Business" page, May 23, 2007) stated that the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has announced the constitution of a committee to go into issues connected with health ...

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