Word: dhaka
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...butting Marco Materazzi, but what about Materazzi? Won't he be punished too? He must have said something awfully offensive to provoke Zidane. Zidane cost France the World Cup title, but he still stands as a legend next to Pelé, Diego Maradona, Michel Platini and others. Mubarak Shamim Dhaka I am so pleased that World Cup 2006 is over. It took up far too many of the TV sport channels. Football is without a doubt the most boring game to watch, especially at the World Cup level. What other game played by such enormously talented players has to resort...
...party system means that well-being is lower today than it was under autocracy. That's not surprising: democratization and violence tend to go together. Indeed, the connection between democracy and violence is an ancient one: Thucydides and Plato were the first to put it forward. Iftekhar Sayeed Dhaka...
...rulers. The government appears paralyzed and unable to root out religious militancy for fear of losing the fundamentalists' support. Statesman-ship demands that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party put aside its concerns about winning elections and repudiate its dangerous coalition partners for the greater cause of democracy. Ali Ahmed Dhaka...
...before the bombings. Newspapers in Bangladesh published stories on the potential threat of Islamic militancy and relentlessly urged the government to take action against militancy, but the calls went unheeded. If the government had taken the necessary steps, innocent people might have been spared a premature death. Solaiman Palash Dhaka...
...economy. TIME's cover story validated our thinking. Your story, however, placed too little emphasis on entrepreneurs and development visionaries and too much emphasis on the politicians. Progress in Bangladesh has come because of the efforts of the former and despite the petty bickering of the latter. Ihtisham Kabir Dhaka...