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Editorials
Height of irresponsibility
If Abdul Rahman Antulay has made his continuance as Minister untenable by blatantly ignoring the facts behind the terrorist attacks on Mumbai and buying into a strange conspiracy theory over the killing of the Maharashtra Anti-terrorism Squad ...

A silver lining
On Thursday December 18, a day after the petroleum cartel OPEC decided to cut production by an unprecedented 2.2 million barrels a day, oil in the international markets was ruling close to the lowest level in four years. At the most obvious ...

Leader Page Articles
Crises today and the future of capitalism
By Joseph Stiglitz

Advances in economic and other social sciences have shown that markets often fail — especially when there is imperfect and asymmetric information.

News Analysis
Portents of insurance amendments
By M. P. Veerendra Kumar

National interests and foreign corporate interests are incompatible.

The latest crisis of trust
By Prabhudev Konana

Madoff’s Ponzi scheme defrauding investors to the tune of $50 billion spotlights the fact that trust has become a rare commodity on Wall Street. Bringing back real trust is going to be extremely difficult.

‘Bush shoe’ gives a Turk firm footing
By Sebnem Arsu

When a pair of black leather oxfords hurled at President Bush in Baghdad produced a gasp heard around the world, a Turkish cobbler had a different reaction: They were his shoes. “We have been producing that specific style, which I ...

S-300s for Iran: an argument for peace
By Ilya Kramnik

The likelihood of Russia supplying S-300 surface-to-air systems to Iran has always been a headache for the United States and its allies. For several years the media has reported the conclusion of a contract or even the actual shipment of ...

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When caution is the preferred option
This column, in a way, is a continuation of the last one (“Changing and varying profiles and mindsets,” December 8, 2008) that dealt with readers’ perceptions of the paper, and how dissimilar these could be, influenced by ...




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