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Our Indian correspondent politely suggests that India’s leadership might have something to learn from Nelson Mandela…
Brian Fawcett files a column about why things don’t go the way the planners think they’re going to…
Indian architect and historian Patwant Singh writes that India’s looming war with Pakistan isn’t in anyone’s best interest, least of all the "ordinary people" in whose name it is likely to be declared.
Our Washington correspondant checks in with some questions about what the U.S. mass media ought to be doing, but isn’t.
Frank Davis rides again, this time to explain why
the Chapters/Indigo experiment doesn’t work, and to hint at alternatives
John Frem runs into trouble with a strange currency transaction…
Raywat Deonandan has some misgivings about where space tourism will take us, and who will take the tours…
Stan Persky is back with the next entry in The Short Version, this one about an important teacher, and an important poet
Tom Sandborn has a few bones to pick with Stan Persky’s December 19th piece.
Today no one cares about the tongue of Orpheus cut out by order of the tyrant yesterday. And everyday schoolchildren visit the museum to gaze indifferently upon the tongue of Orpheus in a glass case. Allthat’slivingmemorytome isbuttheendofhistory for the children bow their heads only to the little screens in their palms "…class…