Yen for change
Japan has had to redefine the terms of reference of its foreign policies at the end of the Cold War, specially in the context of the detente between the USA and the Russian Federation, the substantive expansion of US-China relations, and the success of the Chinese experiment in economic iberalisation.



Summary dismissal
It should, perhaps, occasion no surprise. Nevertheless, US district judge J.F.Keenan's summary dismissal of a class action suit filed in November 1999 by the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster rankles.



How shall we praise thee?
The dvaitaadvaitaatita parama, kena anyena namnaa tvaam stuyaam?, asks a Sanskrit hymn, actually a translation by Jesuit R. Antoine of a Greek poem of St Gregory of Nazianzene.



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