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		<title>Internationalising the public interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nizar Manek, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 24 October 2010 08.00 BST   The international media must not forget the campaigners paying a high price for exposing corruption in the developing world   The arrest and detention of Algeria&#8217;s most prominent anti-corruption campaigner last month attracted wide media attention inside the country, but it received little or no&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/protecting-anti-corruption-activists/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=4378&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In support of a &#8220;super law&#8221; to clamp down on tax avoidance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters: Analysis &#38; Opinion, The Great Debate UK Nizar Manek, August 13 2010 - Nizar Manek is a writer based at the London School of Economics. He blogs at Albino Whale. Follow him on Twitter. The opinions expressed are his own. - In this current state of ‘austerity’, with a proliferating tax avoidance industry whose reason&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/the-indefinite-article-in-support-of-the-general-anti-avoidance-rule/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=4070&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progress Report 2010: Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 28 2010, Fritz Heimann and Gillian Dell, Transparency International, Berlin; preliminary case research by Nizar Manek, independent research contractor Read the 92 page report here: The number of countries enforcing a ban on foreign bribery has shown continuous progress in the last six years, with countries representing more than half of world exports taking action,&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/progress-report-2010-enforcement-of-the-oecd-convention-on-combating-bribery-of-foreign-public-officials/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=4024&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rustom Bharucha, ‘Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore &amp; Okakura Tenshin’ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 180 pp.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Asia Research (SAGE journals) Nizar Manek, London School of Economics &#38; Political Science The author, a Calcutta-based director and cultural critic, weaves together an elegant study of pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, drawn out through the 1902 meeting in Calcutta of ‘two luminaries of Asia’: the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, and the Japanese art&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/rustom-bharucha-%e2%80%98another-asia-rabindranath-tagore-okakura-tenshin%e2%80%99-oxford-oxford-university-press-2006-180-pp/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=2287&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The moon&#8217;s gaze</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muse 2009/2010, Literary Journal of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek Skies surround, and the moon gazes Downward, upon the wilderness of day, Turned starless night. Shadows upon muted Flickers of light surge: The common eye looks upon. From moon&#8217;s orb solemnent, The clouds shift away. As creeping vines, crowding forests, Crowd the mind:&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/crowding-forests/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=2228&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The vagabond</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muse 2009/2010, Literary Journal of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek In matters of the heart The scales of justice cannot judge. Apart: the heart and The laws stand. The laws heed no emotion, Nor does the heart heed any law. Between the laws and the heart: The vagabond stands.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=3412&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nizar Manek on obstacles to &#8216;tax equity&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News, Department of Law, London School of Economics, 16 March 2010 Undergraduate law student, Nizar Manek, has recently published a front-page article on openDemocray.net, on obstacles to tax equity. His themes include the power afforded to non-domiciled political party donees and high net-worth individuals, and an expected international ripple effect on tax policy of a&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/nizar-manek-on-obstacles-to-tax-equity/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=3589&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wider Logic of Tax Equity: Ashcroft Affair and Global Aftermath of Citizens’ United</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[openDemocracy.net - front-page Nizar Manek, March 7 2010 The Ashcroft affair underlines why taxation and citizenship &#8211; for persons physical and moral &#8211; need to be closely aligned Lord Ashcroft, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, was secretly able to remain non-domiciled for the nine years in which he has been in the House of&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/how-tax-equity-is-foiled-by-competing-interests/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=3468&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Tax, Financial Secrecy, and Investigative Journalism&#8217;: seminar report</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polis Director Charlie Beckett’s blog, February 15 2010 This report on the inaugural seminar for Polis/LSE seminars in Investigative Journalism and Law which considered the mechanics involved in the process of financial investigation is by Nizar Manek (nizar.manek@gmail.com), coordinator Polis/LSE seminars in Investigative Journalism and Law. ‘Tax, Financial Secrecy, and Investigative Journalism’ was chaired by Professor&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/seminar-tax-financial-secrecy-and-investigative-journalism/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=3448&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A tax regime that works</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comment is free, the Guardian Nizar Manek, Thursday 7 January 2010 17.00 GMT The next budget may narrow the gap between income tax and CGT, but the only way to pre-empt tax avoidance is to align them Speculation is growing that the next budget will narrow the gap between the rates of income tax and&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/3325/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=3325&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Om Prakash, &#8216;Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500-1800&#8242; (Delhi: Manohar, 2004), 426 pp.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Asia Research (SAGE journals), Vol. 29. No. 3, November 2009 Nizar Manek, London School of Economics &#38; Political Science The author, Professor of Economic History in the Delhi School of Economics, presents an anthology of 21 essays written between 1964 and 2002, many now difficult to access. Embedded in original archival sources, this impressive&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/1285/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=1285&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Impunity Gap’: Straw’s Cut-Off Date to Prosecuting War Criminals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[openDemocracy.net - front-page Nizar Manek, September 14 2009 A political measure of accountability for genocide will allow perpetrators to escape justice At present, if you are alleged to have committed genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes before 2001 and you are living in the UK, you cannot be investigated or prosecuted in the UK – or&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/%e2%80%98impunity-gap%e2%80%99/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=2140&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PBS FRONTLINE/World: &#8216;The Business of Bribes&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PBS FRONTLINE/World Producer: Oriana Zill de Granados. Correspondent: Lowell Bergman Nizar Manek, Researcher/ UK Production Assistant, PBS FRONTLINE View documentary reports, May 15 2009 PBS Frontline correspondent Lowell Bergman explores the broader questions surrounding the 1977 US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=1857&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PBS FRONTLINE/the News Hour with Jim Lehrer: &#8216;Corruption Case Exposes Scope of Bribery in Nigeria&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public Broadcasting Service Producer: Oriana Zill de Granados. Correspondent: Lowell Bergman Nizar Manek, Researcher/ UK Production Assistant, PBS FRONTLINE Click to view documentary report (10 minutes), April 24 2009 PBS Frontline correspondent Lowell Bergman reports on the damage done by large-scale bribery in Nigeria. Lowell Bergman talks with Nigeria&#8217;s former Nigerian anti-corruption csar Nuhu Ribadu,&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/pbs-frontlinethe-news-hour-with-jim-lehrer-documentary-report-corruption-in-nigeria-carries-costly-toll/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=1226&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PBS FRONTLINE/the New York Times: &#8216;Black Money&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public Broadcasting Service Producer: Oriana Zill de Granados. Correspondent: Lowell Bergman Nizar Manek, Researcher/ UK Production Assistant, PBS FRONTLINE View the documentary (55 minutes), 7 April 2009 Read the transcript Frontline&#8217;s additional Documents and Readings on bribery and BAE Systems ‘PBS FRONTLINE investigative correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the shadowy world of international bribery. The story&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/pbs-frontlinenew-york-times-black-money-documentary/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=763&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Law undergraduate in book charity exposé: Nizar Manek instrumental in fraud investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News, Department of Law, London School of Economics, March 25 2009 Law undergraduate Nizar Manek has recently uncovered some uncomfortable truths about the charity Humana People-to-People / DAPP-UK, and its purported donations of books to Malawi, which have led to London School of Economics excluding it from its recycling programme. The organisation, which supplies second-hand textbooks&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/law-undergraduate-in-book-charity-expose/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=659&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London college bans Planet Aid-UK book recycling scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Durham (co-founder, TvindAlert.com),  March 18 2009 One of Britain&#8217;s most prestigious colleges, the London School of Economics, has banned Planet Aid-UK  from collecting unwanted books for a &#8216;books to Malawi&#8217; scheme, because the company was unable to provide satisfactory information about the scheme&#8217;s finances or where the books ended up. The Teachers&#8217; Group-run recycling&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/london-college-bans-planet-aid-uk-book-recycling-scheme/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=491&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Books for Malawi&#8217;: LSE Reuse Scheme sends sham charity to recycling bin after investigation</title>
		<link>http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/lse-reuse-scheme-humana-investigation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beaver, student newspaper of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek, March 17 2009 - International company-charity network: 10% in turnover ‘goes to good causes’ - Company ‘pays charity royalties’ to use charity name - January: Danish Western Appeals Court convict senior leader for Danish kroner 18m in embezzled funds and 22m in untaxed income&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/lse-reuse-scheme-humana-investigation/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=468&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dimness of voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muse 2008/2009, Literary Journal of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek Clay-mingled, Imagination summons life-reviving Breath. Beneath muted skies, Through starry voyages of Time, Clods of Clay*, myriad voices longing, Sculpt their rhythmic pulse. Channels of time had drifted past. Some time ago, the dimness of voices Grew weak. With memory mingled, Imagination&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/the-dimness-of-voices/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=231&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rabindranath Tagore&#8217;s Rakta-karavī (‘Red Oleanders’)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beaver, student newspaper of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek, January 13 2009 The London School of Economics Drama Society has staged its first production of the year: Rakta-karavī (&#8216;Red Oleanders’), Rabindranath Tagore’s dramatic masterpiece of 1924. Offering few stage directions, Tagore’s playscript forms a mere skeleton to which any director must append flesh&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/tagores-rakta-karavi-%e2%80%98red-oleanders%e2%80%99-theatre-review/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=109&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Africa World Service: &#8216;How important are role models?&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC Africa World Service: ‘AFRICA: Have Your Say’,  January 9 2009 Nizar Manek, Production Assistant How important are role models? &#8217;I want to be like you when I grow up&#8217;. Have you ever said those words to anyone in your life? Many of us have someone we want to be like &#8211; someone whose life is an&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/bbc-africa-how-important-are-role-models/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=104&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Africa World Service: &#8216;What can Africa learn from Ghana&#8217;s polls?&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC Africa World Service: ‘AFRICA: Have Your Say’, January 8 2009 Nizar Manek, Production Assistant John Atta Mills has been sworn in as Ghana’s new President. The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has praised the presidential election in Ghana as a democratic achievement and an example to others. This time last year, thousands of Kenyans&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/bbc-africa-what-can-africa-learn-from-ghanas-polls/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=25&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Africa World Service: &#8216;Does personal hygiene affect your health?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/bbc-africa-does-personal-hygiene-affect-your-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC Africa World Service: ‘AFRICA: Have Your Say’, January 7 2009 Nizar Manek, Production Assistant Informative discussion with Dr. Val Kurtis (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; author, ‘Dirt, disgust and disease: a natural history of hygiene’) and Dr. David Ndoula (G.P, Kampala, Uganda).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=22&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Royal Ballet: Triple Bill &#8211; Voluntaries, The Lesson, Infra</title>
		<link>http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/the-royal-ballet-triple-bill-voluntaries-the-lesson-infra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beaver, student newspaper of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek, December 17 2008 The Royal Ballet saw the world premiere of Wayne McGregor’s Infra, since he became the Royal’s Resident Choreographer last year, following tremendous success with Chroma. Based upon a notion laid down in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty – &#8220;It is important to imagine&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/the-royal-ballet-triple-bill-voluntaries-the-lesson-infra/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=18&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for media culpa? Journalistic integrity compromised after Mumbai blasts</title>
		<link>http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/time-for-media-culpability-the-mumbai-blasts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beaver, student newspaper of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek, December 4 2008 When an incident of the nature of the Taj Hotel siege occurs, among the many casualties – beyond the records of those killed and injured – is journalistic integrity. Shortly after the attack in Mumbai last week, a reputable Indian&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/time-for-media-culpability-the-mumbai-blasts/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=20&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LSE governor in U.S. bribery probe: over $1bn sought after allegations of &#8216;massive outrageous fraud&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/lse-governorin-us-bribery-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beaver, front-page - student newspaper of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek, November 18 2008 A governor of the London School of Economics has come under investigation for alleged involvement in a &#8216;massive outrageous fraud&#8217; involving &#8216;conspiracy of illegal bribery and other criminal acts&#8217; against the Bahraini Royal Family, after the U.S. Department of&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/lse-governorin-us-bribery-probe/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=16&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Police scuffle mars Queen visit: allegations of police violence, Prevention of Terrorism Act used against protesters</title>
		<link>http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/police-scuffle-mars-queens-lse-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beaver - front-page, student newspaper of the London School of Economics Beth Cherryman and Nizar Manek, November 11 2008 LSE students allege a police officer used unlawful violence against a protester as he took part in a demonstration at the Queen’s state opening of the New Academic Building last Wednesday. Second year Government student Joe&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/police-scuffle-mars-queens-lse-visit/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=14&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grosvenor House rent dispute settled: postgrads accept compromise measure</title>
		<link>http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/grosvenor-house-rent-dispute-settled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beaver &#8211; front-page, student newspaper of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek, October 14 2008 Residents at Grosvenor House voted this week to accept a compromise measure to resolve their rent dispute with the LSE Accommodation Office. The measure will see residents pay a higher rate of rent in the Lent and Summer terms&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/grosvenor-house-rent-dispute-settled/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=11&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clerical error &#8216;cock-up&#8217;: Grosvenor postgrads in rent contract dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beaver - front-page, student newspaper of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek, October 7 2008 Students at Grosvenor House – a postgraduate LSE hall of residence – have this week seen unexpected rent rate inflation by up to £20 per week. Price changes in the new contracts stipulate increases at an average of&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/grosvenor-postgrads-in-contract-dispute/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=8&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banking crisis threatens students&#8217; plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nizar Manek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beaver, student newspaper of the London School of Economics Nizar Manek, September 30 2008 Conversion rates for summer internships with investment banks are set for further decline, following record numbers of students not accepted into graduate placements this year. The summer&#8217;s banking crisis has cast doubt on the stability of the profession for this year&#8217;s&#160;&#8230; <a href="http://albinowhale.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/%e2%80%9cdude-where%e2%80%99s-my-internship%e2%80%9d-unsteady-economic-summer-threatens-students-plans/">Read&#160;more</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albinowhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6087309&amp;post=3&amp;subd=albinowhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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