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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Vol. 41 - No 46
 
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Distant thoughts VERTISTMENTS

It's the dawn of another New Year and I am away from home. I miss the people I love, who would have gathered for the festivities, and the times when the April school holidays brought with them expectations of a train ride along the edges of steep mountains, passing bright green paddy fields and dusty little towns.

 
Screaming at scam

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Turning them down
It usually takes turbulent brainwaves and brainstorms to smash our thoughts deep into the 'too obvious' and therefore inconspicuous facts of life. Recently I was trying to help out a friend of mine who wanted some brotherly advice on how she could politely turn down a guy who was going to ask her out. (Without hurting his feelings.) What is the most diplomatic way of saying the big and hurtful NO to people ranging from good friends to strangers in buses and juniors at university ?
 
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