Sethusamudram project .. is it necessary to hold a bandh? Holding a rare sitting on a Sunday 30th September 2007 , the bench of Acting Chief of the Supreme Court of India , Justice B N Aggrawal and P P Naolekar ordered that the DMK and its allies shall not go ahead with the bandh either on October 1 or any other date, as the bandh per se was illegal and unconstitutional in view of the court's earlier ruling on the validity of bandhs.

Types of Social Security Cards and application procedure to obtain the number.

Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers
By Javier Santiso

The political and economic transformation now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies.
October 2007   ISBN-13 978-0-262-69359-2   $14.95/£9.95 (PAPER)
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Barack Obama's campaign has stubbornly failed to gather momentum, while Hillary Clinton powers ahead. Paul Harris in New York on the man from Illinois who stalled in the polls.

It was not the storm that buried New Orleans. It was not the hand of god or the wheel of fortune. It was negligence, human negligence, intentional negligence at the highest levels of government. A Jazzman Chronicle by Jack Random.

The basic proposition of this article is that the democratic potential of professionalization clearly outweighs the problems, at least in the Danish case, but probably also more generally. Thus, my claim is that the professionalization of political communication contributes positively to the development of the public sphere and more democratic communication in the political system as well as the journalistic system. This claim is, however, not based on critical public sphere theory, but rather sociological systems theory headed first and foremost by Niklas Luhmann. Thus, the article introduces the functionalistic strategy of analysis of systems theory as an alternative to what could be called the utopian method of critical public sphere theory. In the final instance, the choice between these two traditions is simply a matter of analytical approach.