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| The Cold War continues |
| Obama’s barely coded offer to Medvedev and Putin |
| The recent summit meeting in Moscow did not dispel the suspicion that Russia, too, has lost an empire without finding a role, as Dean Acheson said of Britain. But Barack Obama’s barely coded offer to Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin of a nuclear-sh... |
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| For the nation |
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Sir — The railways minister, Mamata Banerjee, has stated that locals will be preferred for jobs in ... |
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| Worlds apart |
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Sir — The arrest of poor people by the police in Lalgarh is unfortunate. K.P.S. Gill has compared t ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — Swapan Dasgupta’s fascinating thesis on the “defiance of conventional sexual morality leading ... |
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| SPELLBOUND |
| From Chaucer to Shakespeare to Whitman to Seth, the English language has survived many kinds of catastrophic change. It had f...|
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| To amuse, not awe |
| “I want [my art] to flourish (so to say) in a ‘cloud of unknowing’,” K.G. Subramanyan explains in an interview, when asked about the process of his work. “For a centipede like... |
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| A classic return |
| Little Thespian’s welcome return to regular drama with Patjhad, based on Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, proves just how superior the script of a class... |
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| A tenuous connection |
| Why are the British universities not producing top-class cricketers these days? Where are all those cricketing buds that bloo... |
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At one early, glittering dinner party at Buckingham Palace, the trembling hand of a nervous waiter spilled a spoonful of decidedly hot soup down my neck. How could I manage to ease his mind and turn his embarrassed apologies into a smile, except to put on a pretended frown and say, without thinking: ‘Never darken my Dior again!’ — BEATRICE LILLIE
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