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In an interesting introduction to hill stations, the historian, Dane Kennedy, likens them to “sentinels over heat-shimmering plains... | Read..
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Sir — The government does not seem to have noticed the skyrocketing prices of gold in the market (“ ... |
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Sir — I am an ordinary woman with some usual problems, which are nevertheless taking a toll on my h ... |
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He has been called weak by his critics; others have called him indecisive; previous admirers now turned into doubting Thomase... | Read..
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I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. — HARLAN ELLISON
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