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Editorials
Defusing a crisis
Pyongyang's decision to re-enter the Six Party talks is excellent news but the world — and Washington, in particular — must realise this is not the way things were supposed to go. Thanks to gross mishandling by the Bush ...

Lula bounces back
With the re-election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as President of Brazil with about 60 per cent of the vote in his favour, it hardly seems to matter that he had to go through the inconvenience of a second round run-off. Lula, as he is popularly ...

Leader Page Articles
China throws open its doors to Africa
By Pallavi Aiyar

China is hosting the leaders of more than 40 African nations in Beijing from November 3 to 5. This underscores its attempts to increase economic and diplomatic clout with a continent often ignored by the rest of the world.

News Analysis
Brain drain or mutual gain?
By B.S. Prakash

In an increasingly shrinking world, we need a more sophisticated understanding of the national-international dynamics at work, at the workplace.

Will Americans hobble George Bush?
By Jonathan Freedland

The November 7 elections in the U.S. cannot, alas, remove the President. But they can change the political terms of trade.

Guide to old age
By Brian Aldiss

MANY FAMOUS men and women have been celebrating their 60th birthdays lately. I want to put in a good word for being 80. True, there are disadvantages to being so old; the great thing is to count the advantages. When you are 80, there are all ...

Training teachers from scratch
By Harish Chandola

Tibet, where the literacy rate was less than five per cent four decades ago, now has 890 primary schools and 1,568 teaching stations.

Corrections and clarifications
The sentence in "Taking no chances" (Chennai city, November 1, 2006, page 2) was: "As soon as such a packet was sighted on a chair, a security personnel brought the necessary equipment and had it thoroughly checked and removed." As a reader ...

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