The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 08, 2007

OFFHAND
Justified additions
According to recent media reports (see, for instance, the Hindu of April 29), the Foreign Secretary informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs that the Government was considering ... More

E-DIMENSION
Tales from economic hit men
The game of Economic Hit Men has just got more complex, the corruption more pervasive, but their operations more fundamental to the world economy and politics, says John Perkins who returns with his EHM in `A Game As Old As Empire'. Third World count ries are caught in a web of control — financial, political, and military — that is extremely hard for them to escape, rues the book narrating many deeply disturbing stories of greed and international corruption. More

SAY CHEEK
Tame taildogging and combat the EMV
Gemmelsmerch, screensucking, gigaguilt... These are among the new words Edward M. Hallowell has coined `to describe some of the strangeness of modern life'. Screensucking is `wasting time engaging with any screen,' he defines in CrazyBusy ... More

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