The Daily Star: Internet Edition Sat. December 09, 2006

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Sat. December 09, 2006


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International Anti-Corruption Day
December 9 is Interna-tional Anti-Corruption Day.

Spotlight On Middle East
Turn around in US policy may end violence in Iraq
Donald Rumsfeld, US Defense Secretary, a well-known Princeton Wrestler in his university days, finally resigned but it was too late. Damage was already done.

Vietnam calling
I left Bangladesh for Hanoi to conduct a research study on the linkage between agriculture, trade and poverty reduction in Vietnam on October 28, not an auspicious day many would now believe.