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| Can’t get no satisfaction |
| Scorsese’s homage to the Stones |
| The energy is, at first, truly mind-boggling. The thin old man prances like a show filly, he jumps, he pumps his arms as if trying to swim in mid-air, his famed androgyny is out on display like a neon-sign, his voice, nasal yet cracked, cuts like a m... |
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| Bad education |
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Sir — It is ironic that Ripun Bora, who tried to cover up a murder by offering a bribe to a CBI off ... |
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Sir — There is a curious feeling of déjà vu about the fiasco over Tarit Topdar’s driver flou ... |
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| Leader emerges |
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Sir — Barack Obama has created history by clinching the Democratic Party nomination after defeating ... |
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| Mind the flab |
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Sir — The Delhi High Court’s ruling, which threatens obese Air India airhostesses with suspension, ... |
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| THE OWL AND THE LARK |
| The owl is the bird of wisdom. The lark the bird of song. Their images and the myths associated with them convey this. The ow...|
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Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
— GEORGE ORWELL
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