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| The Violence Card |
 EVER since the culture wars of
the 1980s, Americans have been
familiar with "the race card" -
an epithet used to discredit real
and imagined cries of racism.
Less familiar, however, is an equally
cynical rhetorical tactic that I call "the
violence card."
Here's how it works. When confronted
with an instance of racially charged
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| NOT ENOUGH
INFLATION |
 AFEW days ago, Alan
Greenspan, the former
chairman of the Federal
Reserve, spoke out in
defence of his successor.
Attacks on Ben Bernanke by
Republicans, he told The
Financial Times, are "wholly
inappropriate and destructive."
He's right about that - which
makes this one of the very few
things the ex-maestro has
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MES students attend QF lecture at TAMUQ
TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK
DOHA SEVEN students of MES Indian School attended the fourteenth lecture of the Qatar Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) recently.
The lecture was delivered by Professor Kirk R Smith, a joint Nobel Peace prize winner, for his work on environment and climate-related issues, as well as an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Talking of the different kinds of incomplete combustion and the section of the society that is more prone to this dreaded phenomenon, Smith said that incomplete combustion of tobacco is responsible for as many as 12 million premature deaths worldwide annually.
He also talked at length on the alternatives to fuels that cause incomplete combustion and other policy-related matters.
The students who attended the lecture were Mohammed Shaheem (X), Suhail Zubair (X), Chris Regy (IX), Rathul Jayaprakash (X), Pushparaj (IX), Emad Takkur (IX) and Richi (X).
According to a statement issued by A P Sasidharan, MES principal. Manmadhan Mambally, chief coordinator of literary activities accompanied the students.
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