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Five ways of putting an end to anger
1. If there is someone whose bodily actions are not kind but whose words are kind, if you feel anger toward him, meditate to put an end to your ...
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Who cares about cricket
cricket for about a decade. The only form of the game that i paid any attention in recent years was Test cricket. And i'm beginning to wobble even on that. The howl of outrage from the Indian media and cricket pundits over the match-fixing scandal in ...
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PIL filed in Madras high court questioning its month-long summer leave
Madras high court seeking the court's direction to quash its own month-long summer vacation merits serious consideration. Such long leaves for the judiciary, which is already under considerable strain due to a mountain of backlog cases, are not in keeping with the realities of the courts. According to the law ministry's own admission, there are over three crore cases pending in various ...
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Corruption of the American dream
corruption in every alleyway in India, so wise up, why should cricket be an exception? The second, and higher order, perspective, is that corruption is increasing the world over. Time permitting, we can magpie-pick our favourite corruption site and that could be in any continent, anywhere. Go ahead, surprise yourself! Why has corruption become so pervasive all over? We know about Indians and ...
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In death as in life our netas claim priority over us
Death is said to be the great leveller. As the poet put it: "Sceptre and crown/ Must tumble down,/ And in the dust be equal made/ With the poor crooked scythe and spade." The one exception to this universal rule is India. Here, our political VVIPs -- our netas -- are not only larger than life, they are also larger than death. During their lifetimes -- and very long lifetimes these ...
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Extractive Industries A New Accountability Agenda
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was founded in 2003 with the goal of strengthening governance by increasing transparency over revenues from the oil, gas, and mining sectors. EITI has contributed to much greater disclosures of information and helped spur dialogue in many countries. But EITI has not made progress toward its ultimate purpose of enhancing accountability in ...
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WOLF Tyranny in our time
King George III .';He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance,'; in the words of the Declaration of ...
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PAUL Blocking the pathway to a national ID
Judiciary Committee this week is expected to be considered by the in June. Many see measures contained in this bill, such as a strong E-Verify and a ';photo tool,'; as a means to control unlawful immigrants’ access to unlawful employment. I worry that they go too far.I think there are better ideas that err on the side of individual privacy while still strengthening our borders. ...
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EDITORIAL Reids court-packing scheme
Harry Reid doesn’t like the direction the federal judiciary is heading, so he has come up with a variant of court-packing to achieve his results. He took ...
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LAMBRO Dodging job talk
Senate is working on an immigration bill and puts out a statement urging its passage - though the West Wing has had nothing to do with designing its key provisions or moving the process along.Earlier this month, it dawned on Mr. Obama’s advisers that he hadn’t said much about the economy for quite a while. So he made a photo-op, fly-by visit to Texas to talk about jobs, but uttered ...
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EDITORIAL The nanny blows his top
the court rebuke he got in March for trying to prohibit sales of ';supersized'; sodas. He blew his top last week at a second judicial slight. A judge scuttled Hizzoner’s scheme to require all of Manhattan’s Ford Crown Victorias and other cabs to be replaced by the ';Taxi of ...
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KUHNER An enormous abuse of IRS power
IRS was transformed into a partisan arm of the administration in order to persecute Mr. Obama’s critics. This was not only unethical, but also unconstitutional and illegal. ...
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SHERK A union of one
View results Desperate times call for desperate measures, but the union movement has taken this saying to a new level. It has reacted to dwindling membership by unionizing recipients of public assistance. In more than a dozen states, unions now extract dues from government benefit checks.The latest example is Minnesota. The legislature just passed a law unionizing day-care providers at the ...
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GHEI The price of eroding trust
IRS has long been used by those in political power against their opponents is symptomatic of the larger problem in the United States. Years of redistributionist rhetoric, bailouts to firms who should have been responsible for the risks they took, subsidies flowing to the politically connected, and the replacement of flexible social norms by rigid top-down regulations are causing erosion of trust ...
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EDITORIAL Windmills of death
View results There’s a killer on the loose. Known for murdering in cold blood with a sharp blade, the government has nevertheless turned a blind eye to the killer’s trail of death and destruction. The lucky ones who survive are maimed and left to die. The American taxpayer is forced to subsidize the slaughter.We’re not taking here about the Tsarnaev brothers and their ...
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HANSON When paranoia becomes prescience
White House press secretary Jay Carney all peddled it.The problem with an all-powerful, rogue government is not just that it becomes adept at doing what it should not. Increasingly, it also cannot even do what it should.Philadelphia ...
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Dear Tiny Desk Miss You
Tiny Desk , I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work maybe 20 feet from you. Before that, I worked about 10 feet from you, but people used to come stand behind me and breathe their miscellaneous lunch smells on my neck while you were entertaining guests, so I moved. When I saw our new building, it was so open that I assumed I would still be able to hear everything, even though ...
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Whos The Best Drinker Dogs Cats Or Pigeons
It's a dog drinking water. It's also the answer to a riddle. When you and I take a drink, we can lift a glass, hold it to our mouth, tilt and use gravity to pour the water in. Dogs can't do that. In a pinch, we can kneel down, put our mouth to the surface and suck water up (or, to be polite, use a straw). Dogs can't do that either. They don't have sucking ability. Yet ...
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Plimpton A Fond Look At A Man Of Letters
With: George Plimpton, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Graydon Carter, James Lipton, Hugh Hefner, Robert Kennedy Jr., Gay Talese If ever there was a man who made a virtue out of failure, it was George Plimpton. He played quarterback with the Detroit Lions without even knowing where to put his hands to take the snap. He had his nose bloodied by knockout king Archie Moore. He sweated through ...
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Breakin The Rules 20 General Principles Suspended In Fast And Furious 6
. 1. Newton's Laws Of Motion 2. The Reluctance Of Brilliant Criminal Masterminds To Freely Confess 3. The Inability Of Two Things To Coexist In The Same Physical Space 4. The Integrity Of Vending Machines 5. Gravity 6. Gina Carano's Ability To Snap Most Of These People Like Twigs Pretty Quickly, If We're Being Honest 7. The Hardness Of Cars, Which Are Actually Kind Of ...
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Pitbull Gets Epic You Constantly Have To Defend Your Success
. Armando Christian Perez -- better known as Pitbull or Mr. Worldwide -- has sold five million albums and had No. 1 hits in more than 15 countries. He's worked with artists like Usher, Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez. Now, he brings the party to the big screen in the new animated feature ...
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Douglas Damon Illuminate HBOs Candelabra
- when you just consider the concept of the TV movie and its casting -- this new HBO Films production raises all sorts of questions: How much will be based on verifiable fact, and how much will be fictionalized? On an anything-goes premium-cable network such as HBO, how graphic will the sex scenes be? And the most important questions involve the drama's two leading men, playing an ...
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Here’s a chance to ease the misery of fistula
I was profoundly moved to meet these women and girls, most from poor, rural backgrounds, who had suffered severe physical and social consequences because of this largely preventable illness. Mourning the stillbirth of their babies, ashamed of the fetid odour they produced, having lost a chance at education, being confined to their homes, they were left feeling hopeless, depressed and ...
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A new response in the war on terror
Beyond these changes in policy, Obama's speech offered tantalizing signals that the president is contemplating a downsizing of what many - but not Obama himself - refer to as the global war on terror. Even as he defended the use of drone strikes and other efforts against "specific networks of violent extremists," the president ...
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Good news on health costs
Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state agency running the state's new health exchange, announces the plans and prices that will be offered by private insurers during a news conference in ...
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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