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| Britain is about to witness two very different spectacles |
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these are the cities with louder traditions of self-congratulation. However smug Londoners may be about London in private, in public we’ve tended to complain rather than brag about it. In any case, the claim that we’re living in ‘the greatest city in the world’ seems ridiculous, given last year’s r... | Read..
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| Daily hazard |
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Sir — The news report, “Minister speaks, complaint off” (May 22), caught my attention since I had a ... |
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The government of Sri Lanka did not project the release of Sarath Fonseka, former commander of the armed forces, as the high ... | Read..
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Only good things can come of extending basic medical training. The recent ruminations of the Medical Council of India have fo... | Read..
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| Shelter From The Storm |
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His escape is still creating waves, and has strained relations between the two most powerful countries in the world. But the ... | Read.. |
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| Scary handbook of purity |
| The state of Bavaria in Germany has decided to reprint Mein Kampf for the first time since 1945, “even at the risk of it becoming a bestseller”, according to news repor... |
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| Caught between the pen and the sword |
| What is a bestseller? A book considered extremely popular because it features on the list of current top selling titles? Or books widely known enough to be touted by bookselle... |
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| STOP RIGHT THERE |
| Picture this. A young man and woman, pursuing PhDs in one of the United Kingdom’s most celebrated universities, get married. Soon, they obtain their degrees. Thus armed with d... |
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Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,/ Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,/ And solid pudding against empty praise.
— ALEXANDER POPE
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