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  • And then there is Sachin Tendulkar, whom they cannot drop. All through the series against England, in which Tendulkar scored only 112 runs and a solitary half-century, we wondered when he would go. We waited in vain for a signature innings to allow him to bid farewell with a smile. All that speculation and all those half-penned cricketing epitaphs resurface in a soap opera that threatens to diminish a most intriguing series for Indians
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  • Electricity, however, is provided by largely reliable, taxpayer-supported entities, and no one seems to think the country would be better off if a purely private, wholly deregulated operator were in charge. Such a company might decide to provide service only in New York, Washington and other big cities, at very high rates for those who could afford it, and refuse to serve small towns and less- successful areas

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  • I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am James Holmes’s mother. I am Jared Loughner’s mother. I am Seung-Hui Cho’s mother. And these boys—and their mothers—need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.