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    • Musharraf yields to pressure

      General Pervez Musharraf's weekend declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan was yesterday unravelling fast in the face of furious domestic and international reaction. Elections are now to be held in January as scheduled and he said he will resign as army chief. Pressure is mounting on him to restore the rule of law, release prisoners and lift censorship. p

    • Breast cancer audit

      The crisis of confidence affecting breast cancer services threatens public trust in the broader health system. Yesterday's TNS/mrbi poll in this newspaper showed that some 53 per cent of people believe the health service has deteriorated in the last three years. p
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    • HSE's wasting disease

      Brendan Drumm rightly described the latest scandal of misdiagnosed cancers as "appalling". But to understand the inability of the Health Service Executive to get to grips with the services it runs, you could do worse than look at the report of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration, writes Fintan O'Toole p

    • Proposed $100bn US superfund is no long-term fix

      The US banking crisis has intensified with the resignation of a second investment bank chief executive, writes Justin O'Brien p

    • Sarkozy's backing for religion as school subject good news

      Rite & Reason:  The French president wants to replace the doctrinaire secularism that excludes religion from schools with a more open spirit of inquiry, writes Kevin Williams p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      Ten Days That Shook the World is one of the all-time great book titles. But even after reading John Reed's famous account of the Russian revolution, you may find yourself wondering which days in particular he had in mind, writes Frank McNally p
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