Bore versus Wuss
When Democratic party candidate Al Gore and his Republican counterpart, George Bush, grappled with their fight-to-finish televised debates in the last leg of the race, the election emerged more clearly than ever before as a choice between a liberal and a conservative.



Good for you, Manohar Joshi
When CPI(M) leader Gurudas Dasgupta went to ask Industry Minister Manohar Joshi to intervene in the labour standoff at Maruti Udyog last week, he refused to do so.



The satisfaction of statistics
The perception is that we have not performed well, that the economy has not stabilised or recovered from recession, that people's welfare has not improved, that Pakistan is isolated internationally, that there is a flight of capital and an exodus of entrepreneurs from the country.



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