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| The luck of the draw |
| The Olympics in London and olive picking in Greece |
| My daughter is trying to buy tickets for next year’s Olympics, which will be held only a few miles from where we live. The process is complicated — too complicated for me to have registered more than a passing interest. Eight million tickets are bein... |
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| Wait and watch |
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Sir — I was watching Rahul Gandhi’s recent padyatra in Uttar Pradesh on television and was a ... |
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| Good samaritan |
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Sir — The proposals made by West Bengal’s newly-appointed education minister, Bratya Basu, to revam ... |
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| Do stop |
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Sir — The erstwhile railways minister, Mamata Banerjee, must be thanked for the rail-bus service be ... |
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| THE KNACKER’S YARD |
| There is an old and popular doggerel that says, “You cannot hope to bribe or twist/(Thank God!) the British journalist/ But ...|
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And what I’ve learned is not to believe in magical leaders any more; that character and compassion are more important than ideology; and that even if it’s absurd to think you can change things, it’s even more absurd to think that it’s foolish and unimportant to try. — PETER C. NEWMAN
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