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| An enabling garment |
| The burqa is no more an alienating symbol than the cassock |
| Britain’s former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, wrote an article in the Lancashire Telegraph, a local newspaper that circulates in his parliamentary constituency, describing his difficulty in communicating with Muslim constituents who met him ... |
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| UNDER HAND |
| Only misplaced faith will see the market economy as a school for social ethics. This is not to condone corruption but to reco...|
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| VEILED THREAT |
| Scarcely has a request ever evoked such an overwhelming sense of gratitude among those to whom it was not made. Mr Jack Straw...|
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| The terms of life |
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The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence on Mohammad Afzal. The judgment says that persons like him deserve to die. Th... | Read.. |
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| Voices of the same poverty |
| To italicize or not to italicize. For Indian writers selling their English novels in the literary emporiums of the world, this apparently trivial decision has become absolutel... |
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| States in a time of unrest |
| In this, my tenth and last annual report, I have sought to provide an overview of the Organization’s main achievements and challenges during the past 12 months in the light of... |
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I think it’s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. — ANGELA CARTER
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