For decades, he had been obsessed with breaking up or privatising Japan's postal system, which sounds a strange obsession but actually lies at the heart of the country's financial and political distortions.

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So it is strange that agriculture should now lie at the heart of two big global projects of the next year or so: the Doha round of trade talks and the eastward expansion of the European Union.

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She has crafted a strange, fecund and poignant work that draws the reader into the spiritual heart of the steamy southern Indian state of Kerala, where she was raised as a child.

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