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Cricket by design
If catches win matches, pitches bring in riches. Take the flaming controversy over the one in Kanpur, where India squared the Test series with South Africa. The track at Green Park, where the ball spat and turned maliciously, was obviously ...

Tactical compromise
The April 13 power-sharing deal between President Mwai Kibaki and his main opponent, Raila Odinga, could bring to an end the ethnic strife that has convulsed Kenya since the December 2007 election. The 94-member council of ministers constituted ...

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Between a rock and a hard place
By P. Sainath

The nations that taught us that state meddling in economic matters was blasphemy are now nationalising banks, bailing out brigands, and pouring in funds to stop factories from closing down.

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A perspective on law reforms
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

A pragmatic exercise of legal engineering is needed to validate the substantive constitutional propositions beyond vain verbosity. The recently formed Law Reforms Commission in Kerala is geared to this goal.

Paying the price for Heathrow fiasco
By Dan Milmo

The chief executive might have been pressured into acting tough by major shareholders who ‘demanded heads on a plate.’

Corrections and clarifications
In a report “Caste has divided society: judge” (April 14, 2008), the eighth paragraph was “The court asked the Centre to deliberate whether the reservation policy followed since Independence had been effective in achieving ...

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