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The New York Times, it appears, has been hit by a scandal of unprecedented proportions – one of its journalists faked his reports about the war in Iraq, among others, plagiarising an article published by another newspaper. It’s disturbing how the sources he claimed to have interviewed didn’t bother complaining to the paper but merely…

It is a tragedy that people are killed because of decisions their leaders have made – for or against a cause. All these people wanted to have, was a good time away from home. Then again, that’s the whole point, isn’t it? There’s no use attacking a fortress on watch, when you can shock the…

By now you would’ve heard that Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death. Various countries have expressed their agreement, disagreement, ambivalence and reservations about the decision. More here: Authoritative blogs’ posts on Saddam (Technorati) Wikipedia entry on Saddam Videos on Saddam (Youtube) Technorati Tags: Saddam, Iraq

“Everything from Morph to Creature Comforts to Wallace and Gromit was there. It had all the film sets, the props, the models, everything. It really is a bit of tragedy.” Read on… Considering other recent world calamities (which I don’t need to write about), this is rather minor, but I still felt a pang of…

In class yesterday, our professor was using the example of the presence of mafias in certain countries to indicate a weak rule of law. So we covered the usual suspects – Italy, Russia, China and some Eastern European countries. Then the professor asked, “Does the US have a mafia?” Some people said yes, in the…

I love cool gadgets like these. Hang on to your seats, world. An exciting new President is coming in!