...rows of wooden chairs laid out in the library, they mouth the words as they trace a...the bright little room.In Laos, a school library is indeed sacred. Books are rare in the...charity that helped build and stock this library and hundreds of others like it, still...

Traditional management is over. The internet has killed command and control. Now that everyone can analyse and ridicule

...insight with the best of them. "Forster's novels are full of people who'd think twice before borrowing a Forster novel from the library," she winningly declares, in a piece about the novelist's BBC broadcasts. There follows a possible rebuke of literary criticism...

...to explore the city while still getting the endless reading done - I did not come to New York just to make friends with the library.As such, this year will play an influential role in my personal as well as my professional and academic life.It is not easy...

...Club dinner at Mossiman's midweek, Monsieur Levy injected more V's - "for victory" - into his depiction of the recovery. He broke down patterns region by region and sector by sector, applying the V to China and Asia generally.The luxury goods purveyors were all...

...Ahuja has left Credit Suisse Asset Management to become senior research analyst in RCM's sustainability research team.● Alan Ferguson has joined the business development team of Ascentric, the wrap platform. He was latterly sales operations director at The...

...councils" and turned on their former allies, al-Qaeda in Iraq.Iraqi officials did not blame...residents said the murders bore the signature of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which lost the ability to...paramilitary groups, known as Sons of Iraq.Ihab al-Sobai, a spokesman for the local Sons of...

The mere possibility that a $7.4bn technology merger in California might be blocked by regulators nearly half the world away

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...George Washington University and a former assistant secretary of state for south Asia affairs, 1997-2001. Raja Mohan is Henry Kissinger chair in foreign policy at the Library of Congress and a contributing editor of The Indian Express, New Delhi