There's also his weird family.

They would kick in doors, kick the suspects, drag them out, beat them up and take them to the base. At the base, they would be interrogated, tortured, in many cases murdered and made to disappear.

During 15 or 16 years, the entire nation was convulsed by armed terrorist attacks, 70,000 people died, peasant women were raped and it stuck in the popular imagination that the left had something to do with it.

I have friends and family over that way, and they're concerned. Which is why it's so important that we have changes at the national level, but I don't think much will come of Bush's policies. There's too much going on in the world to worry about us.

Also the imposition of excise duty of 12 percent on computers needs to be studied from an impact perspective since the finance minister has said that there will be no increase in cost due to this.

Gates' visit comes at a time when Microsoft's domination is very much being eroded. This time, we have a lot of success stories to show him.