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Spreading contagion
The modified $700 billion bailout package, approved last week by the United States Congress after some initial hiccups, seemed to have faded into the background by Monday. The initiative has, thus far, not served the immediate objective of ...

Surprise element
The award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to the two French scientists who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, and to the German who discovered the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical ...

Leader Page Articles
REALITY CHECK
Bush signing statement on 123 leaves flaws intact
By Siddharth Varadarajan

President endorses fuel assurances, but U.S. interpretation of agreement is unchanged.

News Analysis
Singapore and the ‘Global Indian’ brand
By P. S. Suryanarayana

A thematic show on economic issues of interest to India and its friends in the Asia-Pacific region, notably Singapore as the lead partner.

Corrections and clarifications
* A sentence in the first paragraph of “Obama surges ahead” (Editorial, October 8, 2008) was “In any case, it was guaranteed that financial issues would barge into the first of three debates between the ...

‘Dear Prime Minister … create a new national mood’
By Harish Khare

In this fictional letter written with the 15th general election in view, Sonia Gandhi asks Manmohan Singh to assert himself and concentrate on key internal tasks — above all, protecting the lives and liberties of all citizens.

Behind the Batla House shootout
By Praveen Swami

Charges that the Jamia Nagar encounter was fake belong in the Wonderland.

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