New Delhi finds hope and cynicism as it tries to clean up

Thursday, October 9, 2003

NEW DELHI, India -- The park had been scrubbed to near-spotlessness by the time the politicians arrived, and the nearby alleys cleared of garbage. Even the suddenly well-swept dirt wasn't, well, very dirty.

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