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“Following your logic Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons did incite violence and so should not have been published. These are very real limits. Read Stanley Fish’s work, “There’s no such thing as free speech: and it’s a good thing too”. Marion Gaman Sydney”
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“Although it is useful to specify the incongruities of the fox-hunting ban, the definitive word on the hunt is Oscar Wilde’s: “the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable”. PAGE NELSON Charlottesville, Virginia”
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“Not once did the column recognise that China has moved over 300m people out of poverty within 30 years, an achievement unprecedented in human history. Let’s get real and learn how we can relieve widespread human suffering from what has worked. If our economic models do not fit, we should get out of the game. The overwhelming concerns of the poor are finding work, food, health services and education for their children. Like it or not, the Chinese model has satisfied these. CORNELIUS CACHO Naples, Florida”
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“In the late 1970s, business cards were just being reintroduced in China. I received one which stated, in English: The responsible person of the department concerned. KAREL KOVANDA Brussels”
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“If after that Congress still dislikes Mr Obama’s actions, Mr Dent concludes, it should take up its own immigration legislation. He is right. Alas, many of his colleagues prefer to be seen fighting Mr Obama’s plans, not fixing them.”
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