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| Investing sensibly |
| The risks and rewards of making investment decisions |
| Last time, I identified the three variables which govern rational investment decisions: liquidity, reward and risk (I made a mistake; if the rate of interest rises from 8 to 10 per cent, the return on a fixed-interest security such as a bond would be... |
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| Pride and fall |
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Sir ? By commenting that he would have broken out of jail if he had been informed about his mother? ... |
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| FIGURE IT OUT |
| Perceptions of the seriousness of HIV/AIDS in India are largely a matter of figures and categories. Prevalence rates and high...|
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| RIGHT SUM |
| At least some mathematics teachers get their calculations right. Heading the list in West Bengal is the teacher of mathematic...|
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| The Great Betrayal |
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Medha Patkar, and her continuing fast, seems to have had hardly any impact on the government. As it turns a blind eye to its ... | Read.. |
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revolution next door |
| The people of Nepal are furious with
King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev. The democratic movement, which only months
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struggle for survival |
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of irrigation systems, and at the whim of richer upstream users for water, or
pushed out onto land dependent totally on ...increasingly err... |
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There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.
? WILLIAM MCILVANNEY
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