Volume 4 Number 223 Fri. January 09, 2004    
 
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Editorial
Buriganga ownership quandary
Unauthorised sale of public property must be curbed
The government's drive to dredge the Buriganga river in order to ensure a depth of 12 feet between Sadarghat and Ashulia is a well-intentioned and long overdue initiative.
 
Editorial
Huda hogs headline
Public interest dictates a probe
The suggestion by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Communications Ministry of wrong-doing against minister Nazmul Huda might have stirred the hornet's nest.

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Straight talk
Bush is vulnerable in November
Zafar Sobhan
The most recent Time/CNN poll on the US presidential election this November shows President Bush leading front-running Democratic candidate Howard Dean among likely voters by a mere five points
 
Cross talk
Why were they heroes?
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
Unhappy the land that has no heroes!" said Andrea in Bertolt Brecht's Leben des Gallilei. "No. Unhappy the land that needs heroes", replied Galileo.
 
Letter from europe
The impact of a sliding dollar on economic recovery
Chaklader Mahboob-ul Alam writes from Madrid
Alook at the international currency rates on the first working day of the new year (January 2, 2004) shows that the United States dollar has kept on sliding against other major currencies.
 

 
   
 
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