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Editorials The wrong rite of passage A form of torture, which can cause severe emotional and physical damage, ragging enjoys the surprising status of a rite of passage. This dubious initiation ritual continues to be practised despite the ban slapped on it in 2001. While six States ... Lessons from rising interest rates The Reserve Bank's recent exhortation to banks to moderate their lending rates is timely. However, similar appeals in the recent past by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram did not yield the desired results. Since in the largely liberalised ... Leader Page Articles From Lahore to Karachi — Musharraf's crisis By Nirupama Subramanian By turning to an ethnic party like the MQM for help to take on deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary, President Musharraf may have aggravated the worst political crisis he has faced. News Analysis McCarthy and Hollywood's cowardice By Michael Freedland Hollywood has still not escaped the lack of courage that allowed film careers to be destroyed 60 years ago. CO2 sponge losing ability to soak up extra emissions By James Randerson Climate change "feedback effect" in the Southern Ocean. Encounters with uncontacted Amazon tribes By David Hill Peru's uncontacted Indians are increasingly in danger as oil companies, encouraged by the government, move in. EU to target employers of illegal migrants By Ian Traynor HUNDREDS OF thousands of middle-class people across Europe could be fined for using nannies, gardeners or plumbers if they have not asked for proof that the workers are in the country legally. Under a crackdown on the exploitation of illegal ... Corrections and Clarifications The heading of a report was "Quota for forward castes: PM backs Advani" (May 18, 2007), while the text stated that both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani endorsed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's ... Letters to the Editor Read Today's supplements: Metro Plus | Property Plus | Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address |
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