Some Indian politicians and diplomats do not like Britain's large aid programme because this is not the image of a land with global middle class aspirations they want to project.

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Little adds the tax fails to match Hong Kong's image as a world-class city and that some of his clients are now thinking about leaving.

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When Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 by Jonathan Cape, it inaugurated a tradition for the spy hero: individualistic, unconcerned with class and handy with a deadly weapon, within a society that would attach this image to many sides of what we know as the Cold War.

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