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Interminably interim
Finally, it is curtains for the one-man enquiry commission which had degenerated into a one-man conspiracy to hang on to a cushy job. Six years after he was asked to investigate the criminal conspiracy that led to Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, Justice M. C. Jain had managed to produce only an interim report.
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The day of the roach
Now that Motorola has embraced Java, the incantation brigade that would have us believe that soon you'll prefer to order your groceries over the Internet told us that the grocer is now on the brink of going online. The reason: the trend on the Net to go corporate, fill pages with pretty pictures, jazzy copy, a lot of Java and maybe some virtual reality. A trend that should give consumer goods manufacturers, their ad agencies and their retailers ideas.
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Rules should be humane
If walls have votes, I've lost these elections. For thousands upon thousands of meters of wall space along the axial roads that criss-cross this constituency, the candidates of the major political combines have splayed their names and symbols in a glorious profusion of colours.
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Star suspect
The more competition there is in any field, the better for the consumer and, eventually, for the industry itself, right? So this newspaper has argued, maintaining that competition empowers consumers who then force underperformers to sharpen their act or bow out. Sadly, recent experience of the visual media in India seems to stand this wisdom on its head.
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