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Expanding opportunities
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s commitment to set up more Central Universities during the Eleventh Plan to achieve a higher enrolment ratio is a commendable reiteration of the government’s role in improving access, quality, and ...

Syria at a crossroads
This is a time of heightened risk and opportunity for Syria. Damascus is under pressure from the United States on several fronts. Its ties with Iran, support for Hizbollah and Hamas, and failure to seal the border with Iraq cause acute irritation ...

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In France, the Right takes a Left hook
By Vaiju Naravane

The Nicolas Sarkozy Government’s very first measures, a series of tax breaks for the middle classes and the seriously rich and its decision not to raise the minimum wage, do not appear to have gone down well with the French public. His right wi ng UMP, though winning a comfortable majority, has not done as well as predicted.

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It has got to be Al Gore in the White House
By Peter Preston

If he is as serious about climate change as he says he is, he has to run for President.

What is your motivation?
By Matt Keating

The path to genuine fulfilment blends the personal and the material.

Palestinians must be allowed to decide
By Karma Nabulsi

The drivers of violence in Gaza are clearly external. When all Palestinians can vote for sovereign rule, peace will be within reach.

Corrections and clarifications
that it should have been "_ the rest is history". The writer clarifies that it wasdeliberate; it is "hysteria". >>A report "DPA to hold all-women rally on July 1" (Chennai city, June 16,2007) had misspelt, in two instances, the name of ...

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