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| American use of torture |
| Torture is easier than infiltrating enemy ranks |
| Reports and photographs of prisoners tortured by American government employees have made the United States of America notorious (it should be mentioned that they all came from American, mostly official, sources). Now the US justice department has rel... |
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| Father figures |
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Sir — Ramachandra Guha in his article, “The calling game” (Aug 29), rightly criticizes the tendency ... |
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| Teething trouble |
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Sir — The Metro Railway of Calcutta has been extended to benefit more passengers, and this is good ... |
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| AGENT AGENDA |
| If 70 per cent of mutual fund buyers and 90 per cent of insurance buyers resort to commission agents, then the quality of the...|
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| HANDS OFF |
| The increasing clout of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in the Darjeeling hills reflects poorly on the administrative machinery in...|
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| From tragedy to farce |
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Power, and being victims of the belief that they are ‘all powerful’, can be a very destructive ‘aphrodisiac’, particularly wh... | Read.. |
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| Not for their sakes only |
| An option, says the dictionary, is both the thing that is or may be chosen and the freedom or right to choose. Such a fusion of object and agency is at once exciting and scary... |
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| Tests of a different kind |
| “Dear Stakeholder” — greets the user interface on the CBSE website containing questionnaires for students, parents, teachers and principals. The questionnaire is a measure ado... |
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Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts and emerges ahead of his accomplishments. — JOHN STEINBECK
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