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| Make language study compulsory |
| I love lots of things about France; I just don’t like speaking French. On a recent trip, I went to a chemist to buy Lemsip (a well-known brand of cold and flu remedies in the United Kingdom) or the French equivalent for my friend.
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| Why an American revival matters to global recovery |
| It is hard to be optimistic about America at present. With the help of crucial government support in the crisis, the US financial sector (or at least parts of it) has bounced back, while America’s real economy struggles with high unemployment, discouraged labour-force dropouts, and damaged balance sheets.
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| A timeline of events |
| The following is a timeline of events surrounding the June 25, 2009, death of Michael Jackson and its aftermath:
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| Two futures of the Internet |
| The future, wrote the novelist William Gibson in a justifiably famous aphorism, is already here: it’s just not evenly distributed.
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| LETTERS |
| I am a Pakistani expatriate working in Qatar’s oil and gas sector. Last week when I went to the Airport Immigration Office to apply for visit visa for my wife’s mother and sister, I was informed that this service had been discontinued from there and I would have to go to the Gharaffa Immigration Office. |
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| VIEWPOINT |
| As Greece continues to struggle with its budget crisis there are legitimate concerns that the euro adopted by 16 countries can only be as strong as its weakest link.
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