Korn Chatikavanij, the 20-year veteran investment banker who left jpmorgan Chase's operations in 2004 and became deputy head of the opposition-leading Democrat Party a year later, is hard-pressed to spell out how he'd change economic direction.

FORBES: After Thaksin

Last year, India received less rain in the first half of the June-September monsoon season than usual, hitting western India, which has endured a two year-long dry spell, particularly hard.

WSJ: Rains to Lash Drought-Hit Western India

The green paper does not spell out all the hard choices Britain will have to make, but it sets out two important principles.

ECONOMIST: Future defence policy

Mendis grabbed two key wickets in his opening spell when he removed hard-hitting batsmen Yuvraj Singh (the top scorer with 23) and Mahendra Dhoni, while Muralitharan made short work of India's lower order.

BBC: Sri Lanka spinners destroy India

Now it looks as if he is more interested in avoiding hard questions about Dick Cheney's spell as head of Halliburton or his own ties to dubious energy chiefs.

ECONOMIST: George Bush's Clintonian drift into crisis-management

The emotions flame high, the vocal lines soar and the spell of the tempestuous, star-spangled orchestral writing is hard to resist.

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The recent hot spell had left the course fast-running and bone-hard before the rain took the edge off for the first round.

BBC: SPORT | Golf | Last-hole eagle sees Tiger shine

That allows a certain amount of hedging of bets because sometimes the weather is very easy to forecast - in a spell of high pressure for instance - and sometimes it is very hard.

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