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Will India do it?
Every once in a while comes a Test series that captures the imagination of the cricket-playing world. The confluence of circumstance and action seems magical, for the cricket sparked is grand, dramatic, and uplifting. The context of bilateral ...

Total vindication
A distinctive feature of healthy democracy is a judicial system that is able to review unjust political and administrative decisions in a fair and independent manner. The Australian Federal Court’s dismissal of the appeal against the ...

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No foreigners please, we are British
By Hasan Suroor

Pick up any survey and immigration tops the list of issues that the British say they are most concerned about though they deny that this has anything to do with racism.

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Waiting for the Gujarat verdict
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

If the Congress loses this election, it will have done so despite uniquely favourable circumstances. If Narendra Modi wins this election, he will have done so in the most adverse circumstances — reaching out to the people over his own party, pa rivar, and administration.

East to west — the EU without borders
By Kate Connolly

Millions of eastern Europeans will now be able to enjoy moving across the EU without a passport, from the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic coast in southern Portugal.

Corrections and clarifications
In a report “Prabakaran was injured in air raid: military” (“International” page, December 20, 2007), the first two paragraphs said that LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran was injured in an air raid on November 26, but ...

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