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| A quiet place to read in |
| Libraries are a measure of civilization |
| Widener Library, Harvard’s premier library, is surely one of the most imposing memorials any mother has constructed for a lost child. As you come up the steps, past its imposing columns and enter through the main gate, you are simply, but poignantly,... |
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Sir — “Even spacecraft meet with accidents” was how the transport minister of West Bengal, Subhas C ... |
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Sir — An African friend of mine, who works on an AIDS project and was visiting India for the first ... |
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| GROWTH FEELS GOOD |
| The feel-good factor is fine before the elections as long as the NDA keeps in mind that all elections are leaps into the ...| Read.. |
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An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime. If I had such a right over the stick I am about to cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.
— JEREMY BENTHAM
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| Who’s
chicken? |
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time he steps out of his ground floor laboratory, veterinary
scientist Hare Krishna Pradhan has to take three hot shower... |
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