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| Songs of Christmas |
| Gordon Brown looks set fair to go lurching from crisis to crisis |
| My habitual desire to escape Christmas is rising to the fore with an impossible yen to retire either to bed or to somewhere hot and unchristian. Regretfully my family’s members are still young enough not to have additional families of their own but o... |
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| Animal instincts |
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Sir — Jayprakash Bezbaruah of Sivsagar met his tragic end when he got too close to the caged tigers ... |
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| Powerless |
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Sir — We elected a woman as our president and shouted from the rooftops about our progressiveness i ... |
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| POLLSPEAK |
| The economy determines the way people vote. This simple and self-evident truth has often been cast aside because conventional...|
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| NATURAL DEATH |
| When an institution loses its substance, the fall of its edifice is usually a matter of time. Nepal’s monarchy had long becom...|
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| That time of the year |
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There was a time when December heralded the year’s much-awaited fun and entertainment. There were parties, good theatre, musi... | Read.. |
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| Different strokes |
| Charles Darwin, otherwise known as the father of modern biology, was also keen on cricket. During his voyage on the HMS Beagle, he made an admiring record in his diary ... |
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Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
— HORACE MANN
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