Vol. 4 Num 153 Mon. October 27, 2003    
 
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Before a stronger police force is built
Recently, the home ministry sought Tk 803 crore from the finance ministry to modernise the police administration (The Daily Star, October 19).
 
Let's rally behind Mahathir
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Mahathir deserves applause from the West too
Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad deserves appreciation for his historic speech at the opening of the 10th session of the OIC conference at Putrajaya, Malaysia, on 10th October 2003.
 
N. Coetzee: A critique
I enjoyed Lim Samson (The Sunday Times of South Africa in 1999, reprinted in DS Oct 18 , 2003), trying to analyse ...N Coetzee, the latest Nobel laureate from SA.
 
Israel responds to Mahathir's diatribes
When Dr. Mahathir made his speech at the 10th OIC meeting, a flurry of outrage from the Western world followed about his alleged anti-Semitic comments. For a start, what Dr.
 
Choice of headline
I, like many of our friends and acquaintances, am appalled at the choice of words (and language) in your newspaper. Let me not waste our time but come right to the point.
 
Politicians use citizens as footballs
"Doctors get jobs at political behest" was the first lead of The Daily Star (22.10.03).
 
Balance of power in world politics
A leader's decision is always costly, because the whole mass is involved, and the latter have no authority to take any corrective action.
 
Chandpur Government College Vs. UC Berkeley
Probably the only thing that is common between these two schools is that both are public schools.
 
Mahathir's message: Fault lies elsewhere
We have got an excellent review of Dr. Mahathir's address. (Zafar Sobhan, The daily Star, 21 October).
 
Government must compensate Khasias
I was deeply shocked after reading a news in The Daily Star on the 20th of October that the local timber traders attacked on the innocent Khasia people at the National Park in Magurchhara, Moulavibazar.
 
Fault lies with incompetence, not weekends
The weekly holiday issue is splashing over the letter columns again. The desire is to change the weekly holiday from Friday to Sunday.
 
Who are those 11 per cent?
The whole nation is now united and protesting against India's plan to divert Eastern Himalayan river waters.
 
Corruption, clamour and the TI index
It is indeed a disgrace for us to be branded the most corrupt nation for three consecutive years.
 
PM for the Ummah or SQC?
Khaleda Zia addressed the concluding session of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) in Putrajaya, Malaysia on October 17. We realise that it was Dr.
 

 
   
 
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