August 3, 2003
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Patience pays, not force
 JUST outside the city of St Petersburg, Russia, at the famous Piskarevsky Cemetery, a million victims of the siege of Leningrad in the second world war lie buried amongst surroundings of sombre beauty. The War Memorial carries a poem...
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Excerpts: The controversial Liaquat
 THE image of Liaquat as being intellectually negligible had been projected in the highest political circles of Pakistan. When Jamiluddin Ahmed showed Sir Feroz Khan Noon, then Governor of East Pakistan...
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Articles: The magic is back
 WHEN struggling single Mom Joanna K. Rowling thought of the idea of a seven-part series on a boy wizard during a train ride home one night after work, even she didn’t...
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Author / Articles: Recluse made of steel
 AYAZ Daudzai is among the senior writers of modern Pushto literature who has contributed in a big way to drama, criticism, personal essay and prose. His role in the promotion of...
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Author / Articles: Life stories for solace
 READING has always been one of my greatest hobbies,” says Zareen Musharraf, President Pervez Musharraf’s mother. “Even during the busiest phases of my life, I have always found time to devote to books...
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Syndicated Reviews: Hot and cold porridge
 DURING the campaign to release the charity worker Ruth Wyner from prison, people would often ask me, as the Cambridge Two Campaign chairman, if I was worried about her behaviour. Ruth...
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Syndicated Reviews: Uncanny dreams
THIS is one of the best anthologies I have read. It has 43 tales, all of them exciting, all beautifully translated, ranging from the Austro-Hungarian decadence to modern science fiction. It also has an excellent introduction, describing the particular qualities of Austrian — as opposed to German or any other...
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Review: Is corporatization the answer?
 AS the title suggests, the book focuses on sustainable agriculture, food security, and the impact of globalization on mainly the underprivileged. The first part of the book is on globalization and...
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Review: Missing details
YOU can’t really put your finger on it at first, but there is something about Sandra Mackey’s latest book that is extremely vexing — at least to readers who feel strongly about the US occupation of Iraq. To be fair to Mackey, she does not flinch from criticizing the US for its policy on Iraq and shows plenty of sympathy for the...
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Review: Filial duties
 MORE often than not, children admire their parents, and don’t see anything wrong with them. And if a parent happens to be a celebrity then the admiration knows no bounds. What...
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Review: Imagining or remembering?
 TO readers familiar with Isabel Allende’s books, The House of the Spirits and Paula, her new memoir, My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile, keeping pace with the scattered events...
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Review: Globalization and its failures
IN 1993, Mexico was projected as the picture perfect model of globalization under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But the images that emerge from Confronting Globalization are not of...
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Review: Development with care
 ECONOMIC growth has become the mantra of our age. It is, we are told, the panacea of all our ills and the measure of all progress. We are all too aware...
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Review: In the eye of the storm
 THE Sindh of newspaper coverage is a dark province of cruel landowners, barbarous practices, and a miserable, suffering people — the stuff of tragedy or melodrama. By contrast, in Typhoon this...
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Review: The turning point
THE author, who is the strategic affairs editor of The Hindu in New Delhi consulted the entire spectrum of the Indian foreign policy establishment before writing the book under review. It...
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Review: The insider’s view
 BUREAUCRACY is that class of society, which is not held in high esteem in Pakistan today. Bureaucrats are generally considered to be corrupt, unscrupulous and given to conspiracies and intrigues....
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