This awareness of themselves on a larger map than the miseries of the slum allowed them to knowingly present themselves as actors with a positive valence, not merely poor hopeless individuals living in utter misery.

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The Australian admitted they had a "frank discussion about Indian cricket, present and future" but said he had been trying to motivate Ganguly after a run of poor form with the bat.

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The problem at present, he says, is that North Korean farmers plant too many poor-quality seeds in a desperate attempt to boost crops, and do so in soil that is becoming increasingly less fertile.

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