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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:22 PM

Is Obama's Time but also the era of Wall Street scammers

In what was a predictable pick, here is what Time magazine had to say in naming Barack Obama as its 2008 "Person of the Year": "For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that...
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:58 AM

A shameful silence

As I write this, it is now 14 hours since news of terrorist attacks in Mumbai started trickling in and the situation remains both volatile and confusing. Since then, George W Bush, US President-elect Barack Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Pakistan...
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:36 PM

The making of an Obama front page

Barack Obama's election saw a surge in newspaper sales, temporarily lifting the mood in what has been a very gloomy year--full of layoffs and cutbacks--at American newspapers. While the story was quite compelling, powerful images also drove sales...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:07 PM

Of Headhunters and their Cattle Calls

Lost in the 21-month battle that Barack Obama waged to try and become president of the United States is perhaps the fact that, come 20 January 2009, when the 44th President is sworn in, it will be one of the most challenging assignments anyone can voluntarily...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:03 AM

Outsourcing the business of predicting the Obama-McCain race to India, via Vaastu

It is eight days to go before Americans finally decide on their next president. By many accounts—and most polls and forecasts-- Barack Obama is walking away with the election. Still, there are serious questions about many of the polls as well as the methodology...
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Monday, October 06, 2008 3:54 PM

Rooting and voting for Obama from the Indian electoral college

Every four years, one reads stories--and polls--about how the rest of the world actually prefers the candidate that often loses in the US presidential race. Many of us remember reading about how if Indians could vote, Bill Clinton would still be the US...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:37 AM

My Dear Obama supporter, Show Me The Money

Got to love what US elections and politics have become in the home of capitalism. It is intensely personal and the bottom line is, well, about the bottom line. Here are a couple of emails from the Barack Obama campaign from the Democratic Convention in...
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