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BOSTON — Although mass vaccination campaigns are picking up speed in the West, the end of the COVID-19 pandemic still is not even in sight. For that, the United States and other rich countries have only themselves to blame.

What’s your earliest memory? As a baby too small to walk, watching my older brother, wanting to make my legs do what his were doing, and not being able to. Who are your heroes? Malcolm X, 2Pac, Nas, Jay-Z, Muhammad Ali. They demonstrated the ability to change their mind, which is not easy – especially when all eyes are on you. What book last changed your thinking? Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson. It looks at how the formation of institutions across the world had...

President calls for promotion of book reading culture

President Arif Alvi talks about some of his favourite books By Monday Feb 01, 2021 President Arif Alvi turning the pages of one of his favourite books. — Screengrab from video courtesy YouTube/The President of Pakistan President Arif Alvi on Sunday while sharing what he considers the best reads of 2020 in his view, called for the promotion of a book reading culture in the country. The president, in a video message, advised the people, particularly the youth to develop the habit of reading t...

In 1829, an engineer named Francis Xaver Riepl and the Austrian banker Salomon von Rothschild decided that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was ready to enter the Railroad Era. The two men went to the court of the Habsburg Emperor Francis I and requested permission and funds to build Austria’s first steam-powered railroad line. But Francis was not blind. His family dynasty had ruled large swaths of Europe and all of Austria for more than 550 years, and it hadn’t maintained its dominion for centu...