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In the end,a degree of sanity prevailed.The militant Hindus who had vowed to breach a police cordon and start the work of building a temple to the god Ram at the disputed site of Ayodhya decided to respect a Supreme Court decision barring them from the area.So charged have Hindu-Muslim relations in India become in recent weeks,as the declared deadline of March 15th neared,that a clash at Ram’s supposed birthplace might well have provoked bloodshed on an appalling scale across the nation.It has,unfortunately,happened often enough before.
But the threat has not vanished.The court’s decision is only an interim one,and the main Hindu groups have not given up on their quest to build their temple.Extreme religious violence,which seemed in recent years to have faded after the Ayodhya related explosion of 19921993,is again a feature of the political landscape.Though faults lie on both sides (it was a Muslim attack on Hindus in a train in Gujarat that started the recent slaughter),the great bulk of victims were,as always,Muslims.Once again,educated Hindus are to be heard inveighing against the ’appeasing’of Muslims through such concessions as separate constitutional status for Kashmir or the right to practice Islamic civil law.Once again,the police are being accused of doing little or nothing to help Muslim victims of rampaging Hindu mobs.Once again,India’s 130m Muslims feel unequal and unsafe in their own country.Far too many Hindus would refuse to accept that it is ’their own country’at all.
The wonder of it,perhaps,is that things are not worse.While the world applauds Pakistan for at last locking up the leaders of its extreme religious groups,in India the zealots still support,sustain and to a degree constitute the government.The BJP,which leads the ruling coalition,was founded as a political front for the Hindu movement.It is simply one,and by no means the dominant,member of what is called the Sangh Pariwar,the ’family of organizations’.Other members of the family are much less savoury.There is the VHO,the World Hindu Organization,which led the movement to build the Ram temple.There is the Bajrang Dal,the brutalist ’youth wing’of the VHO.There is substantial evidence that members of the VHO and the Bajrang Dal helped to organize the slaughter of hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat after 58Hindus were killed on a train as they returned from Ayodhya.

It can be learnt from the text that the ruling party in India().

A.offered little assistance in the massacre of Muslisms.
B.was unanimous with respect to the issue of religion.
C.might have brought religious conflict into politics.
D.was striving to gather evidence against militant Hindus.

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When it comes to suing doctors,Philadelphia is hardly the city of brotherly love.A combination of sprightly lawyers and sympathetic juries has made Philadelphia a hotspot for medical-malpractice lawsuits.Since 1995,Pennsylvania state courts have awarded an average of $2m in such cases,according to Jury Verdict Research,a survey firm.Some medical specialists have seen their malpractice insurance premiums nearly double over the past year.Obstetricians are now paying up to $104,000a year to protect themselves.
The insurance industry is largely to blame.Carol Golin,the Monitor’s editor,argues that in the 1990s insurers tried to grab market share by offering artificially low rates (betting that any losses would be covered by gains on their investments).The stock-market correction,coupled with the large legal awards,has eroded the insurers’reserves.Three in Pennsylvania alone have gone bust.
A few doctors—particularly older ones will quit.The rest are adapting.Some are abandoning litigation-prone procedures,such as delivering babies.Others are moving parts of their practice to neighboring states where insurance rates are lower.Some from Pennsylvania have opened offices in New Jersey.New doctors may also be deterred from setting up shop in litigation havens,however prestigious.
Despite a Republican president,tort reform.has got nowhere at the federal level.Indeed doctors could get clobbered indirectly by a Patients’Bill of Rights,which would further expose managed care companies to lawsuits.This prospect has fuelled interest among doctors in Pennsylvania’s new medical malpractice reform.bill,which was signed into law on March 20th.It will,among other things,give doctors $40m of state funds to offset their insurance premiums,spread the payment of awards out over time and prohibit individuals from double dipping that is,suing a doctor for damages that have already been paid by their health insurer.
But will it really help?Randall Bovbjerg,a health policy expert at the Urban Institute,argues that the only proper way to slow down the litigation machine would be to limit the compensation for pain and suffering,so-called ’non-monetary damages’.Needless to say,a fixed cap on such awards is resisted by most trial lawyers.But Mr.Bovbjerg reckons a more nuanced approach,with a sliding scale of payments based on well-defined measures of injury,is a better way forward.In the meantime,doctors and insurers are bracing themselves for a couple more rough years before the insurance cycle turns.
Nobody disputes that hospital staff make mistakes:a 1999Institute of Medicine report claimed that errors kill at least 44,000patients a year.But there is little evidence that malpractice lawsuits on their own will solve the problem.

It is implied in the first sentence that doctors in Philadelphia().

A.are over-confident of their social connections in daily life.
B.benefit a lot from their malpractice insurance premiums.
C.are more likely to be sued for their medical-malpractice.
D.pay less than is required by law to protect themselves.

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