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| Silly season on Islay |
| Where prime ministers holidayed in the past |
| August is always seen as the silly season in British politics. Parliament is in the middle of the long summer recess and newspapers fill column inches with grainy photographs of the prime minister and his cabinet in a variety of European holiday dest... |
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| Road map |
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The decision of the West Bengal government to remove
hand-pulled rickshaws from Calcutta is a welcome
decision (“Modern solution”, Aug 20).
It would be a good idea to compensate the rickshaw-pullers
by replacing their vehicles with auto-rickshaws
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| EXCESS QUOTA |
| It was one of the sharpest rebukes for the government from the highest court of the land. When the Supreme Court, in an acces...|
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| ABSOLUTELY POOR |
| Absolute poverty fosters absolute powerlessness. There are twice as many ?absolutely poor? children in Asia ? suffering from ...|
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It?s a small room, 8 feet by 10 feet, with a window looking out on a wall, but it?s home. Twenty-year-old Tse Xing has just r... | Read.. |
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There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
? MARTY THR?S? McCARTHY
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