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                                                            Clinton, butterflies and Bin LadenThe butterfly effect of using Shakil Afridi to locate Osama bin Laden has resulted in attacks on health workers today. 
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                                                            Batman and BilalLike Batman and Nightrunner; Islam and the Republican-right are pairings that reflect the times we live in. 
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                                                            Culture of violenceGun culture in US encourages individualism. It fosters a society of individuals — everyone isolated from each other. 
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                                                            ‘Approach women like you do wild animals’It is strange how we think of women as wild animals, discursively establishing inequalities and excusing sexual abuse. 
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                                                            On nerve gas and morning sicknessNewsbytes from Syria have taken a backseat to the headline-catching, morning sickness of the pregnant Catherine. 
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                                                            Blown to bitsThrough the use of drones Obama’s Administration rejects international convention that condemn extrajudicial killing. 
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                                                            Thackeray: the cartoonist who became a cartoonThackeray became a man held hostage to an image — an image that burned with xenophobic hatred. 
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                                                            Skyfalling PetraeusHe is not a victim. Distinguished military generals are not virtuous nor are they eminently good people. 
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                                                            Born in the USASpringsteen was right when he said that Obama was the only difference between the American dream & American reality. 
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                                                            Surging SandyIt is ironic that it took a tidal surge to interrupt the US presidential campaign, a week before the Nov 6 election. 
 
    











