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Opinion News  Rupert Cornwell: Obama: In the footsteps of Abraham LincolnAmerica is living a strange and magical moment. In a fickle universe, US presidential inaugurations are a quadrennial rock of predictability, like leap years and the football World Cup. But never has there been one quite like the inauguration this week of Barack Obama. Pop-Aholic: Take the "Time" out of HalftimeThere are many cases in recent times where people have taken large steps in order to make things more "appropriate" for the sake of "decency". Steven Spielberg used his special effects voodoo to transform all of the guns held by the federal agents in ET into walkie-talkies. Fixing terror laws no harder than economyPresident-elect Barack Obama spent last week reassuring us that his economic team is hard at work figuring out how to revive our failing economy. No more difficult than that job will be another critical task his predecessor leaves him. Obama must find a way through the legal morass President George W. Bush created with his war on terror. China Olympic spinForeign journalists are often invited to China by the propaganda department who give out heavy doses of the 'Green' Olympics and China's efforts to An Amarnath diary: Testing faithThey say a nose for news invariably leads you into the thick of things. But I found myself heading north to Amarnath not as a scribe eager to penci The US is right on Modi
It is now highly unlikely that Narendra Modi will visit Uncle Sam this year, and a few strident advocacy groups can take credit for it.
Now clear fissionThe dust has now settled on the political and nuclear frenzy of the last few weeks. Some things are now clearer than they have ever been before. Th Nuclear Deal: Domestic rejection, global acceptance! What an interesting irony!For the world, the Indo-US Civilian nuclear deal almost seems a "win-win" situation; what is unfathomable is the domestic Indian Americans wish the UPA to surviveIf there was one wish which any Indian American today was asked to make as the Parliament starts debating the confidence motion of Prime Minister M Why Do Polls Yield Different Results?If polls that seem to be similar yield different results, you"ve got to find out why, writes CBS News director of surveys Kathy Frankovic. We oft
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