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http://twitter.com/#!/GovHowardDean/status/323602323425353728 The article that sparked Dean’s threat asserts that President Obama’s budget will “rescue the Pentagon”: Although the White House doesn’t advertise this fact in the six-page budget overview it put out this morning, the new budget eliminates nearly all of the cuts that sequestration imposes on the Pentagon. Instead of $500 billion in cuts, Obama proposes only $100 billion, and you have to look closely to spot it (“$200 billion in additional discretionary savings, with equal amounts from defense and nondefense programs”). Poor spelling aside, Dean’s tweet is significant. […]

Suketu Mehta’s latest offering isn’t the big New York book he has been working on for years — “the albatross,” as he likes to call it — but a short story about a man called Mahesh, who leaves India f Read more: http://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/tishani-doshi-talks-to-suketu-mehta-about-his-new-book-what-is-remembered/article9090156.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication