February 1, 2004
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The wealth of a nation
 The case for giving increased priority to human and social capital development has been advanced on many fronts in recent years....
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EXCERPTS: That’s how it will be
 My name is Lazaro Campbell. I am writing from a secure location where we have been for several months. I am not permitted to say where it is, exactly how we live, or who is with me....
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ARTICLE: Post-colonial literature
 Now that the world is once again in the throes of imperial ambitions it would be interesting to see what such ventures do to literature of the colonized nations, during and...
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ARTICLE: Literary agents: An upcoming phenomenon
 Quite a few upcoming American writers tout pieces of their writings by way of their imagination, wit, economy and style. What materials they have produced is projected as being as fine...
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ARTICLE: The joy of reading
Miriam Habib describes herself as a student and a seeker of knowledge. She is a glutton for books, her favourite being contemporary fiction and books on current affairs. She says, “The...
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ARTICLE: Pakistani English literature in 2003 Productive diversity
 The year 2003 was a productive one for Pakistani English fiction and good English translations of Urdu literature, but the number of good poetry collections continues to dwindle. The only Pakistani...
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AUTHOR: Patricia Cornwell Tough on crime
 Patricia Cornwell is not impressed by the behaviour of someone I had mistaken for just another Dorchester guest. “Security. And not very good at it,” she remarks, as we step into...
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REVIEWS: With prolonged consequences
 The six-day war between Israel and its Arab neighbours in 1967 was short but decisive. As the author puts it with a Churchillian touch, “Rarely in modern time has so short...
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REVIEWS: The view from below
 In 1997, when Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car accident in Paris with her companion Dodi Al-Fayed, most analysts figured that her legacy as an icon would soon wither...
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REVIEWS: From Prague to Washington
 High achievers in public life are prone to have big egos, as only such egos help to propel them towards leadership roles. Their memoirs are, therefore, an exercise in self-projection. Of...
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REVIEWS: Between monarchy and revolution
 French history is fascinating for historians, especially the history of the revolution and its aftermath which is re-written and re-interpreted from time to time to keep the events vivid in public...
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REVIEWS: Contradictions in the Empire
 Noam Chomsky is a phenomenal intellectual and educator of our times. He is the conscience of the silent majority around the world. His latest classic Hegemony or Survival is the primer...
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REVIEWS: The legend that was
 In the world of global literature, Urdu occupies a special place. It may be hard to find any other language in which noteworthy contributions have been made by people whose mother...
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IN BRIEF
The invention of homeopathy, which is based on the immutable law of Similia Similibus Curentur, is attributed to the 18th century German allopathic doctor Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)....
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