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| Between the lines |
| In terms of alliances, the US needs Pakistan more than India |
| There are many ways of preparing a balance sheet. A clever auditor will tell you, if you are a good client, how he can disguise a dismal accounting reality as an attractive investment prospect. The collapsed energy conglomerate, Enron, and its now de... |
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| No cure |
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Sir — A vital item missing from Amartya Sen’s list of the things that have wrecked our health servi ... |
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| Air alert |
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Sir — I am an Australian national of Indian origin. I feel it is my moral responsibility to share m ... |
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| ON THE BENCH |
| A letter may say more than the text it carries. Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s letter to the Union law ministry is one of those...|
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| STARTING POINTS |
| Jammu and Kashmir is making a fresh beginning, and the youthful new chief minister of the state, Mr Omar Abdullah, personifie...|
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| Words of War |
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Truth, we are told, is the first casualty of war. And so it is. The very word fell casualty in the Israeli onslaught on Gaza,... | Read.. |
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| Bailing out |
| The name’s bond. Not the Quantum of Solace kind, but that which gets you out of a sordid brush with the law. The world knows it by another four-letter word — bail.... |
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| Right evidence |
| On the testimony of certain witnesses, a man was convicted for an assault on a person on the street. The witnesses happened to include the victim’s father. The accused was s... |
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And meadow rivulets overflow/ And drops on gate-bars hang in a row/ And rooks in families homeward go/ And so do I.
— THOMAS HARDY
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