The Great Ganesha

Earlier, I had posted something about a Slate article which talked about how, even branches of state governments in the US are outsourcing some of their own phone-answering services. The article mentioned the irony of some states outsourcing the administration of their unemployment insurance. I also wrote about how the call center business was booming [...]

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The mountain seems to constantly fascinate Westerners. Or the BBC, at any rate. Yet again, Everest is in the news. This time, no one has summitted (or at least, no one worthy of mention in the news), but a climber has used replicas of clothes worn by Mallory and Irvine – who are alleged to [...]

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“I’d really hate to see you go,” he had said. “Yes,” she replied. “Is there no way around it?” “No.” “All right. In that case, I suppose I must grin and bear it.” “Yes, I suppose.” “And we must move on with our lives.” “Yes.” And that was it. It had only been two days. [...]

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