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She Put Her Own Number in the Emergency Contact Box
The intake form has a box headed EMERGENCY CONTACT and two lines under it: name, and relationship. She wrote her own name, her own mobile number, and in the relationship line she wrote self.
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The Inquiry Was Asked About Events After the Fourteenth
The terms of reference for the inquiry run to a page and a half. It is a document of a kind Indian commissions of inquiry have been constituted by for seventy-five years, and the operative clause a…
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The Admission Form Has a Column for the Father's Occupation
The form is one side of a sheet, printed cheaply, and I have a copy of it from a low-fee private school in a district town where I ran a workshop for two years. Name of student. Date of birth. Prev…
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Nineteen Messages Arrived and Not One of Them Is a Visit
Between Friday evening and Monday morning nineteen messages arrived in my portal inbox. Four were results questions. Three were medication questions that were genuinely clinical. Two were requests …
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The Tuition Teacher and the School Teacher Are the Same Man
At half past five in the afternoon the children who had been in his class at eleven in the morning arrive at his house, about fourteen of them, and sit on the floor of a room with a blackboard on t…
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Three Years of a Structural Change Went Into the Seasonal Factor
The seasonally adjusted number came in at a level everyone described as steady. The unadjusted number for that month was the weakest for that month in eleven years. Both are published. One of them …
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They Moved the Meeting to Four O'Clock and Nobody Called It a Reform
On 12 March 1974 the town council voted five to one to move its regular meeting from seven in the evening to four in the afternoon. The minutes give the reason: overtime for the clerk and the custo…
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They Closed the Maternity Ward and Called It a Consolidation
The nearest place to give birth is now sixty-three miles from the town of Vernal Springs, and the drive takes an hour and ten minutes in good weather. In February it does not take an hour and ten m…
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No Scotland, No Party
Twenty-eight years. That's how long Scotland had been away from a World Cup, which means that when we finally qualified — Hampden in November, Kenny McLean chipping the Danish goalkeeper from the halfway line while my father made a sound
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