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A Development Problem
A development problem_
prime minister Manmohan Singh has identified Maoists as the single most serious threat to India’s national security. In the last few years, these facts have been well-circulated in news reports on India’s stability. But who are the Maoists? What do they believe?
I can bear anything for the sake of beauty
I can bear anything for the sake of beauty_
As if in response to these words a faint moan came from the girl’s lips. Slowly she began to recover her senses. With each shuddering breath, the spider’s legs stirred as if they were alive.
We are what we believe
We are what we believe_ Our believing brains make no qualitative distinctions between the kinds of things you learn in a math textbook and the kinds of things you learn in Sunday school.
A plague at a feast
A plague at a feast: States are not so much declining, failing and yielding as transforming their very nature. The network is the right metaphor to grasping the new state’s complexity.
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Hans Bennink
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You are quick like a monkey, running through the tree-tops, But now you will die.
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“We’re so motivated to get rid of that feeling that we look for meaning and coherence elsewhere,”
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Long lines of people stretched around city blocks in front of ATM machines, waiting hours to withdraw the equivalent of US $3—the maximum allowed by law.
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Alan Jackson
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America’s best and brightest will continue to explore innovative ways for human rights to serve a thoroughly militarized foreign policy
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It is silent.
I don’t smoke.
I don’t want to bother her.
She continues to cry.
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What are you in the art world? The answer, and the art world, matter less each time the question is asked.
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It is unlikely that anyone has ever confused a page of Thomas Friedman’s with one of Immanuel Kant’s, but between them it is possible to triangulate a prevailing sensibility of the past two decades.
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Today, approximately a billion people — close to one-sixth of humanity — suffer from continual and severe hunger.
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Multiculturalists claim that the presence in a society of a diversity of peoples limits the possibility of common values. Clash of civilisations warriors insist that such values are impossible within an ethnically diverse society. Neither is right.