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| Competing woes |
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Sir ? However well-meant, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee?s advice to ?Go to nursing homes? (July 25), sign ... |
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| GENTLE TOUCH |
| The impending visit of the external affairs minister, Mr K. Natwar Singh, to Bangladesh will give an opportunity to both the ...|
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| ART AND NATURE |
| The least a museum of the arts is expected to do is to protect its object from the weather. Yet that is precisely where Bhara...|
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Let?s talk dirty. The 9/11 suicide hijackers ? all Arabs ? attacked the United States of America instead of Brazil or Japan b... | Read.. |
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| Reserve strengths |
| The price of oil has gone up from $10 six years ago to nearly $60 a barrel now. Why is this so? A car-owner or taxi-driver in India would, of course, say that the prices of oi... |
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| Playing in the danger zone |
| It seems that the war to make the world a safer place to live is going horribly wrong. Suicide bombings had long become routine for Baghdad, Jerusalem or Kabul, they now find ... |
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People who are always praising the past/ And especially the times of faith as best/ Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages/ And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.
? STEVIE SMITH
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